Tidlös MUF/MSU-stil lever vidare
Universal Hub heter en av de bästa bloggarna i Boston. Förra veckan bytte den sin ursprungliga look till en ny, en som är ren och skär MUF/MSU “Frihet ger fred” a la tidigt 1980-tal: Den ljusblå färgen, typsnittet, t.o.m. måsjäveln!
Löntagarfonder? Helknäppt!
(Oh boy. Adam linked here based on a somewhat halting though mostly accurate translation. Here’s my own translation of the blurb above:
“Timless MUF/MSU-style lives on
Universal Hub is the name of one of the best blogs in Boston. Last week it changed its original look to one that’s pure MUF/MSU “Freedom gives peace” a la early 1980’s: The light-blue color, the font, even the damn seagull!
Salary-taking funds? Nuts!”
(”Freedom gives peace” sounds like a pretty stilted translation. “Peace through freedom” or “Freedom makes peace” or some such is probably better.
Some explanations: MUF was the largest center-right/right-of-center political youth organization when I was a kid. It was a radically libertarian and anti-communist group. MSU was its high-school K-12 sister organization. I was pretty active in MSU for a few years, but after spending a year in North America in the mid-80’s I became entirely too conservative for it - although, to be fair, I had been part of its then-dying and now long dead conservative-ish faction from the get go.
“Freedom” was the rallying cry for center-right kids back then, while leftists wanted “peace” above all else. You see, back then, there was this country called the Soviet Union, and people like me didn’t like that country at all, while other kids were like “dude, sure the Soviet Union is bad but America is just as bad!” (Those people also listened to Howard Jones, I’m sure). Yeah, that’s the kind of back and forth we had in those days.
“Salary-taking funds” was some bizarre scheme that was one of the top two issues in Sweden back then (nuclear energy was the other one).)
