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Opinions/Editorials Title: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests I have a confession to make. At first, I misunderstood Occupy Wall Street. The first few times I went down to Zuccotti Park, I came away with mixed feelings. I loved the energy and was amazed by the obvious organic appeal of the movement, the way it was growing on its own. But my initial impression was that it would not be taken very seriously by the Citibanks and Goldman Sachs of the world. You could put 50,000 angry protesters on Wall Street, 100,000 even, and Lloyd Blankfein is probably not going to break a sweat. He knows he's not going to wake up tomorrow and see Cornel West or Richard Trumka running the Federal Reserve. He knows modern finance is a giant mechanical parasite that only an expert surgeon can remove. Yell and scream all you want, but he and his fellow financial Frankensteins are the only ones who know how to turn the machine off. That's what I was thinking during the first few weeks of the protests. But I'm beginning to see another angle. Occupy Wall Street was always about something much bigger than a movement against big banks and modern finance. It's about providing a forum for people to show how tired they are not just of Wall Street, but everything. This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness, short-term calculation, withered idealism and intellectual bankruptcy that American mass society has become. If there is such a thing as going on strike from one's own culture, this is it. And by being so broad in scope and so elemental in its motivation, it's flown over the heads of many on both the right and the left.
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest obvious organic appeal The author likes the smell of unwashed fleabaggers and their unflushed shit? Figures, libtards and occutards, 6 of one = 1/2 dozen of the other.
#2. To: lucysmom (#0) OWS and their socialist commie enablers are scum. Get ready OWSers..the beatdown is coming.
#3. To: Not Badeye, A K A Stone, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, mininggold, brian s, mcgowanjm (#0) This is why people hate Wall Street. They hate it because the banks have made life for ordinary people a vicious tightrope act; you slip anywhere along the way, it's 10,000 feet down into a vat of razor blades that you can never climb out of. "But now, I get it. People want to go someplace for at least five minutes where no one is trying to bleed you or sell you something." Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890 #4. To: Happy Quanzaa (#1) The author likes the smell of unwashed fleabaggers and their unflushed shit? Yep. Some are willing to be uncomfortable and take a public stand while others whine in anonymous comfort. Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890 #5. To: loonymom (#4) Don't just talk the talk. Go to your nearest Occutard camp and walk the walk, shit the shit, and whatever else it is the filthy fleabaggers like to do with them.
#6. To: Thunderbird (#2) OWS and their socialist commie enablers are scum. Corporations are persons and money is free speech, but human beings assembling in public to make a statement should be forbidden - have I got that right? Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890 #7. To: lucysmom (#6) You liberal Worm-Tongues are never right..just in need of a good smack.
#8. To: Happy Quanzaa (#5) http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=25885 Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890 #9. To: lucysmom (#0) organic appeal I'm thinking of writing an expose of the ows infantile idiots like you called ' WOODSTUNK ' ... retrograde luddites --- opium den time bubble - warp neantertals ! Maybe I could use a Natalie Holloway charicature that would feature people like you ! Spring break zombies who never return to life locked in the NEOCOM belief - anarchy is cool - reality - growing up - old is a drag ! If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons are for girlie boys ! #10. To: Thunderbird, A K A Stone (#7) You liberal Worm-Tongues are never right..just in need of a good smack. Time to grow up and use your words in debate rather than falling back on "smacking" to make your point. (Stone: giving the advice thing a shot) Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890 #11. To: BorisY (#9) ...old is a drag ! Don't I know it, though it does have its advantages. Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890 #12. To: lucysmom (#11) Old too soon ... too late --- smart ! Ignorance is repairable ... stupor - stupid --- is forever ! If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons are for girlie boys ! #13. To: BorisY (#12) Ignorance is repairable ... stupor - stupid --- is forever ! Couldn't agree more I'm thinking of writing an expose of the ows infantile idiots like you called ' WOODSTUNK Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890 #14. To: lucysmom (#10) Time to grow up and use your words in debate rather than falling back on "smacking" to make your point. Sounds like he missed his 'Wife Beaters' meeting this week. I hope he didn't invite a warrant. "ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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