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But this fall was going to be the fall alright. Bob and the rest of us had made a note to do absolutely nothing. We were going to waste our educated minds–we had no other way of fighting. As I said, there just weren’t enough of us.
— Stevo · SLC Punk!

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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker says this season was meant to be decisive: their group resolved to do absolutely nothing, deliberately wasting their educated minds. With too few people to fight openly, idleness was the only form of resistance they felt they had, and they chose it on purpose.
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