tr3x wrote:Yes.
However, the political ideology behind it seems to be eroding day by day.
It's freedom of speech, yo. Let them assemble and protest. But, unless they organize and figure out how to implement what they want, they aren't going anywhere fast.
I agree with you on that point, however. ^
Kamas wrote:I think OWS is ridiculous. There's never been anything wrong about people earning money. Dancing around protesting against those who win money because you don't is silly. Considering that the 1% percent these protestors are whining about paid 38% of the federal income taxes, it seems ridiculous to demand them to pay more.
The said 99% is coming from middle class citizens, not really the 99%. I find is funny to turn on the news to have young adults in their manufactured and hipster distressed jeans protesting against something they barely understand as they have not really done the amount of work the said 1% has put into getting to where they are. Even funnier when those in my area begin protesting the human rights violation that is the eviction of the OWS settlement on Wall Street.
If the suppressed middle class continues to have issues, they have too much free time and they may as well get to work. With so little organization they can't even begin to bother a system of work that's been stitched into the Western world and so throwing tantrums over whatever human rights violations that comes with temporary eviction to deal with sanitary conditions, I can't begin to take this movement seriously. If they want something effective, they better stop referencing themselves to some modern French Revolution and actually organize something past the uncleanly campouts.
Inkwell wrote:This is just the tip of the iceberg. Turn off your television and start thinking critically.
Really? They don't want anything? They just want to disagree? They just want to raise awareness? Yeah. Right. Even if they only wanted to have things change, they still want something. And, unless they figure out how to get what they want, they, as a group of people, are going to be ineffective.
And, if their target seems to be what I think it is, then nothing significant is going to happen. They are targeting institutions, as if that will do anything. It won't. What is at problem here is that lovely sin known as greed. People have been at war with greed for eons. Things might change temporarily or get slightly, but in the end, it'll all be the same. Especially if they insist that it's the institution at fault, not basic human character.
While I respect the core ideology - ending crony capitalism, pulling corporations out of Congress and the government, ensuring more equitable taxation - it seems more and more as if the protesters are merely petulant children. Sure they have established a manifesto, and sure they've marched out with their spiffy slogans and signs, but do they expect things to change merely because they are screaming for it to happen? They've told us all about the governments wrongdoings - but not what they would do to fix things. If you want to get anything done, you've got to do it yourself. Simply yelling out "Things are bad, so fix it" isn't enough.
On top of that squatting in public space does nothing to improve their image in the eyes of the middle class.
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