Battle for the Soul of Occupy
“Boots. Check. Gas mask. Yup. Black pants. Got it. Water bottle and Bandana. Tent. okay. People’s Library. Sounds good. Solidarity.”
“Will that be all?”
“Oh yes, and one revolution please.”
“And how will you be paying for that? Cash or credit?”
“Credit.”
As occupiers across the world prepare for a May uprising, The Nation magazine has some advice for what the movement should do next. “Show your support today for Occupy Wall Street’s Move Your Money Relay by applying for The Nation Magazine Platinum Visa® Rewards Card!” writes Associate Publisher Peggy Randall. We hear some 99% Spring occupiers are even rushing out now to get their Nation credit card in time for the May Day General Strike.
With this kind of boost, we’re sure to succeed.
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dravazed
I don't know whether this is a spoof of militia-style cretinism or something that is actually scary. Whatever it is, it isn't Occupation.
Anonymous
History of civil rights movements tells us that it IS possible to have
total revolutions without a single drop of blood.
However, taking up arms, even partly, escalates the violence
and usually drops the support of the public very quickly.
The police knows very well how to work with armed forces,
they have no idea what to do with none-violence though, that's a fact.
Winston Smith
not so much.
not at all, in fact.
the Civil Rights Movement was (and still is, in its various incarnations and permutations), ultimately, about forcing The System to fully accept (as much as possible) a minority as part of the dysfunctional, industrial, imperial, capitalist, nightmare of the amerikan dream majority.
a real Revolution would be about dismantling the nightmare by destroying the dream that spawns it while organically creating something new and different from the rubble.
as long as "revolutions" are about "rebuilding the dream", there will be no hope and no change: period.
when there's a substantive consensus and a serious push to destroy the impossible dream, then we'll be on the right path.
i see no evidence we're close to finding the path, let alone traveling it.
we appear to be hopelessly and terrifyingly lost in space.
let's face it, the overwhelming majority of amerikans are so used, abused and brainwashed that they crave the nightmare of the dream.
it's in their sociocultural DNA.
no matter how obviously, loudly and urgently reality screams, "YOUR BEHAVIOR IS HOMICIDAL, ECOCIDAL AND SUICIDAL -- THE ONLY PRUDENT CHOICE IS TO CEASE AND DESIST AND FORGE A NEW WAY OF BEING", it is all but assured that amerikans (and modern, industrial, imperial, capitalist human primates in general) will push that much harder to resurrect the dead, to sustain the unsustainable.
Anonymous
Yes. Unfortunately, you're right. But the tide is turning, and the internet is the way to combat the propaganda and spread alternative ideas and real knowledge.
Anonymous
Organically creating something new? That's the most naive childish dream I've come across yet. What you are describing is Somalia, they haven't had a government in years and all they have right now is a bunch of regional gangsters running the place, people living in constant fear, and STARVATION! Get a grip!
Anonymous
NYGA wasn't able to reach consensus with only a a few dozen members, how are you going to run a nation on consensus? Of course you won't all your silly anarchist plan will do is leave the window open for right wing nut-jub fascists and national socialist party to rise up and stick a foot in your hippy ass. Anarchists tend to get killed by fascists, they also tend to get killed by communists. Why? Because they're too dumb to realize that anarchist models can only work in small communities and does nothing to change human nature. Your model will create a new world of might makes right. Hell I even prefer what we have now to your half-baked vision.
Anonymous
Dismantling isn't the same as building.
Anonymous
Spoken like a true Republican mole...or just a normal idiot.
Anonymous
The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
Fortunate Son
Wow, thats foolish. People who talk about fighting often don't really mean it. People who mean it often don't really understand the costs involved. Thousands of years of war and violence and people are still duped into believing it will solve their problems. You don't kill another human being and live to tell the tale. Your soul dies with them. Like a good friend you follow them into the darkness. You will at once realize who you are and that you are now alone and lost in a vast wilderness that has no end. Your only companions are the ghosts of those you have wronged. Food will never taste as sweet, love will never feel as strong, every emotion you once had will be dimmed by an ever present feeling of seperation from the ones you love most. That is the cost of violence.
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