So there is a ton of occupy craze right now. And honestly, I understand the most of it. of course, I am a democrat, I do consider my self a moderate who leans to the left in most cases, yet I have yet to see a great moment in time in which this movement has completely defined itself. Ff course, you have times when people like Keith Olbermann will get on his show and read off a list of points that seem to cement the ideas of the people of occupywallst, but even when those were announced I still was scratching my head wondering what was to really be done and what really is to be achieved by sitting in the front yards of corporation with billions in their pockets. As I see it, these people are lining the pockets of politicians that allow loose regulations and mishaps of bail outs to even exists. Don't get me wrong, I believe the protest are fair and just to have, and do believe that this is a way to motivate some sort of political change, but I can't just stop wondering to myself if I can go down there and just relax and drink a couple of IPA's down while playing on my iphone and say "fight the power, brah" and be considered a champion of the movement myself?
Yes, I took the cynical approach there, but can you blame me and the rest of the 99% who are actually confused on how to really mass a true political change in this country? I mean the Tea Party, to some success, was able to re stir some sort of libertarian type of movement, but in the end it was clearly funded by newscorp (as is OWS now seems to start being supported by MoveOn.org and Mr. Soros.) So, I guess I'm just not sure if this all is just another step in a horrible waltz that we ought to call a New Americanism: hopes and dreams that we tend to forget about as soon as we see something shiny appear on our favorite media source. Or if, we should just keep advancing but instead of being quietly protesting mobs maybe become something different? not violent (even though we all know that can and will happen eventually) but maybe more like a civil rights movement of the sort?
I really don't know... I never really doubted things of OWS until NPR did an interview with people occupying DC. It talked to a young women who just graduated with a degree in history from a public institution and said corporations were to blame for her not having a job. I nearly turned my car around and drove it into a lake after hearing that. I have a degree in Political Science, I'm not much better off. I make an honest wage here in Oklahoma, I have student loans, a car payment, and a rent check to write out every month. I found something. Sometimes I feel our work ethic has degraded into something in which may be irreversible. I went to the 75th best university in our nation and I run a thrift store, hell, not even the top dog in it, and yet, I am happy.
After hearing that I just wasn't sure what some of those people are protesting for (I understand the corruption, the greed, the movement of jobs to other countries, but the history degree comment?!). I dug the hole I am in, I'll gladly cover myself up with the dirt or try my hardest to get back out. I thought that was the American way.
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Yes, I took the cynical approach there, but can you blame me and the rest of the 99% who are actually confused on how to really mass a true political change in this country? I mean the Tea Party, to some success, was able to re stir some sort of libertarian type of movement, but in the end it was clearly funded by newscorp (as is OWS now seems to start being supported by MoveOn.org and Mr. Soros.) So, I guess I'm just not sure if this all is just another step in a horrible waltz that we ought to call a New Americanism: hopes and dreams that we tend to forget about as soon as we see something shiny appear on our favorite media source. Or if, we should just keep advancing but instead of being quietly protesting mobs maybe become something different? not violent (even though we all know that can and will happen eventually) but maybe more like a civil rights movement of the sort?
I really don't know... I never really doubted things of OWS until NPR did an interview with people occupying DC. It talked to a young women who just graduated with a degree in history from a public institution and said corporations were to blame for her not having a job. I nearly turned my car around and drove it into a lake after hearing that. I have a degree in Political Science, I'm not much better off. I make an honest wage here in Oklahoma, I have student loans, a car payment, and a rent check to write out every month. I found something. Sometimes I feel our work ethic has degraded into something in which may be irreversible. I went to the 75th best university in our nation and I run a thrift store, hell, not even the top dog in it, and yet, I am happy.
After hearing that I just wasn't sure what some of those people are protesting for (I understand the corruption, the greed, the movement of jobs to other countries, but the history degree comment?!). I dug the hole I am in, I'll gladly cover myself up with the dirt or try my hardest to get back out. I thought that was the American way.
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