Before Occupy Wall Street, I had no sense of political consciousness; I left all the contradictions & problematic aspects of neoliberal capitalism alone. I didn't acknowledge them. I didn't think about them. On a conscious level, I was totally unaware of them.

OWS revolutionized my political consciousness and I wasn't the only one. That was what made it powerful. That was what made it scary. It wasn't ever going to be the vehicle to in-and-of-itself destroy capitalism, or fix the system or anything else. It created awareness, it planted seeds. Some of those seeds are just sprouting, others are still laying dorment. Regardless, Spring will come.

This little sapling has barely gotten started, and again, I'm not the only one. There are many of us with schemes and projects and plans to project a sense of social-consciousness and political awareness, to fight exploitation and create awareness and without OWS who knows whether I would have ever gotten started down this path at all. The same could be said for innumerable others.

I imagine revolution seemed impossible until it didn't in every historic revolution to date. We're fighting so that one day the world won't seem so terrible and you (I hope) will no longer feel that terrible sense of nihilism, dismissiveness & self-defeatedness which you are very clearly projecting.