Hey, what's *your* bag?

What's Your Bag?

Corporate Climber

You got a big promotion -- just in time for your wedding! You splurge by buying your sweetie a brand new, bright red Cadillac El Dorado convertible. Now that's the ride for the hottest young couple in town! You're on the ladder to success. You finally feel secure, and better about the country's future. The war and the bitterness still resonate for some people, but they'll pass with time. Anyway, you're less concerned with some people's hangups over social realities than in getting a share of life's finer things. If being part of "the System" means putting your family and your well-being first, that's fine by you.

Sounds like my dad.

Pretty true, except that they make it all sound very naive, and I defy the political spectrum (although I am more in agreement with the left-wing than right, certainly).

i like how it's "AMERICAN EXPRESS PRESENTS WHAT'S YOUR BAG"

Community Cornerstone
You reap the benefits of a settled routine, including a steady job, a loving spouse, and your own home. Though your new family starts to take priority in your life, you stay in touch with activist friends and support their work in the community -- your own community. You believe that earnest efforts to improve society will always be worthwhile, even if your own involvement these days is in the form of encouragement and donations.

for me, i'd never seen any of that footage (including what i assume is iconic stuff, like the bank robberies and the shootout), so it was definately worth watching for that.

Measured in money, work is fine. You embrace responsibilities and routine at the office and at home with your new spouse. Together, you're building a vision for the future that includes kids, a comfortable life, a big annual vacation, maybe even a second home in the mountains or by the sea, if you can save enough dough. When you read headlines about social activists, you shake your head at their misguided energy. For the first time you feel a distance from those people who said they'd never trust anyone over 30. After all, your 30th birthday is not so far off!

in truth, i'd just buy a whole earth catalog, build myself a shack in the woods, grow my own food (etc), and make a high-speed internet connection out of twigs and berries. That's real protest!

Prioritizing Pragmatist
Measured in money, work is fine. You embrace responsibilities and routine at the office and at home with your new spouse. Together, you're building a vision for the future that includes kids, a comfortable life, a big annual vacation, maybe even a second home in the mountains or by the sea, if you can save enough dough. When you read headlines about social activists, you shake your head at their misguided energy. For the first time you feel a distance from those people who said they'd never trust anyone over 30. After all, your 30th birthday is not so far off!

Anthony, it doesn't give a fucking scintilla of credibility to the S.L.A. Sure, it doesn't mock. But everybody, at nearly every point of the documentary, underlines how unrealistic and naive the S.L.A.'s revolutionary goals were, to the point where it sounds a little doth-protest-too-much-y -- as if the filmmakers couldn't trust the audience to see that themselves, or to prophylactically answer neo-con charges of coddling criminals and murderers.