On OccupyWallStreet
@matanlurey @studentactivism What we are witnessing is the birth of a movement, not an isolated and ad hoc sequence of demonstrations.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism What you are seeing is a nascent movement expressing global disenchantment with American society itself.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism The goal is not to seek reform within a current system.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism The protestors are intelligent people whose frustrations have been traditionally mute and interpreted as apathy—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism They have long recognized the pointlessness of the sort of ad hoc protest you're yearning for.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism Their frustration is born of the realization that you cannot seek reform when the system is sewn up already.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism The movement of power away from the political and into the corporate sphere.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism The immense active disservice done to the epistemic wellbeing of a citizen body by the corporate press.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism The realization – beyond personal misfortune – of what t income disparity does to the character of a democracy.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism A huge complex of systemic factors abrogate the possible effectiveness of the sort of protest you're asking for—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism The present protests are – as with similar European movements – striking at that basic truth.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism This is a global movement that rejects corporate democracy as the substrate for piecemeal ad hoc reform.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism Mutual realization among many previously isolated people that they really want our societies to persist as is.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism It's therefore much bigger than you are asking it to be.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism The protestors are not asking a decision-making agent for clemency or consideration. Don't have those demands.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism They are instead trying to fan the flames of quite radical social change by beginning a social movement.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism Trying to create a new critical mass of political aspiration outside of the rigged casino of the present system—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism They are trying to bring American class consciousness to term, without yet more miscarriages.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
@matanlurey @studentactivism The point is not to make demands. It is to self-determine as a movement, and to become confident as such.—
(@x7o) October 03, 2011
