Resistance Begins

"No, I won't support a war if it comes to that," Veronica was saying. "And I don't agree with my sister's decision to go, but I respect it because I respect her."

"That's naive at best," the man leaning on the refrigerator told her. She thought his name was Myron something and he seemed to be a friend of her ex-roommate Holly, but who could be sure? "The war machine is a universal fact of existence in the so-called modern world," Myron Something held forth. "We're all implicated, so by their own totalizing logic, we're also all empowered. To subvert the motherfuckers."

"Bean dip," Veronica remembered. "I knew I came in here for something."

"Opposition to war is everyone's responsibility," Myron persisted, "on a personal as well as a political level. Resistance begins at home."