THIS MORNING, Rebel Girl told me that she noticed something odd on campus. She took me out to the construction site of Irvine Valley College’s Business Technology Innovation Center, which is near the Library. The site is surrounded by the usual green construction fence (see). On that fence, someone had drawn a big question mark with a circle at the bottom. In the circle was the letter “A.”
“That circle-A—that’s the symbol for anarchism,” said Reb.I could see at least two other places on the fence where the same graffito had been drawn.
We stared at one of them.
“OK, but what’s it mean?”, I asked.
“Dunno.”
Later, I looked up “Anarchism symbols” on the web. Wikipedia asserts that, “While anarchists have historically largely denied the importance of symbols to political movement, [they] have embraced certain symbols for their cause, including most prominently the circle-A and the black flag.”
Well, we haven’t spotted any black flags yet.What do you suppose these anarchists, if that’s who they are, are trying to say?
I’ve got some ideas:
WHAT ARE THESE INARTICULATE ANARCHISTS TRYING TO SAY?
Interpretation #1: Is this the new O.C. Chomsky Building we keep hearing about?Interpretation #2:
I think I’m an anarchist, but I’m not entirely sure.Interpretation #3:
Fellow anarchists: check out this fabulous green plastic camo!—Let us know if you've got better ideas. No doubt you do.
Sunny says "hey." —CW
