A Shift in Consciousness
The status quo has us at each other’s throats. Mainstream economics sees this as the social ideal. More for you is less for me. Antagonism keeps the cash flowing. Maximize each moment lest someone else gain the market advantage on you. This sounds miserable, and it is, and yet it remains the system that most of us live every day. It’s time for a new model. Occupy economics reaches to a much more historical and spiritual precept. An idea rooted in the concept of love and cooperation: that more for you is more for me. Author of Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein, explains Occupy’s new logic of the heart.
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Anonymous
A commodity is that which can be sold.
L'amour n'est pas commode.
Anonymous
God can't be Love when the Dollar is Almighty.
For God is the Word.
And the Word is Law.
And the Law is Love.
Anonymous
Well then by that logic God doesn't exist, and therefore Love doesn't exist.
Anonymous
Money is as abstract a concept as Love.
Anonymous
This is the heart of why civil disobedience and non violence overcomes the 1% hubris and ridicule. When Gandi led the march to make salt; many were battered...but Britain had a pause because the protestors were not fighting back. This exasperated the British. This caused them to see their own brutality. I believe massive protest marches will have to be the catalyst. Only so many can be arrested! There will be too many marching protesters. May Day and July 4th Philly
Anonymous
Numbers are key. When there's a few protesters in the streets, they can be ignored as a tiny, annoying minority. When millions of people are in the streets, then its clear that the mass majority of the society is saying that its time for change. When there are millions of people in the streets of every American city, things will change. Until then, probably not.
Non-violence is the way to get those numbers. You can get millions to come out to a peaceful protest. In numbers help further increase the numbers. People also need to feel that its safe enough for them to come out and protest, and larger numbers help them to feel safe.
This is also why the propaganda of the status quo will always emphasize the violence of protests and the danger faced by those who go. The message there to the citizenry at large is that it is dangerous and risky to come to a protest, and thus try to convince many to stay home.
You've got to have numbers, really big numbers, to create change. And people like Ghandi understood that non-violent peaceful protest where the participants feel they are doing something important to help change their world, but also can feel safer in attending knowing that their side at least won't be doing anything violent, that this is at least one way to get the large numbers of people out into the streets that are necessary to achieve change.
When you see pictures of Tahir Square, look at the numbers. It takes getting so many people out to join the protest that those in power have no doubt at all that a huge and vast portion of the populace is demanding change and that it will be impossible not to give them change. It takes millions in the streets. That should be the goal of any protest movement that wants to do anything beyond symbolic protest, and tactics and strategy and organizing should be aimed clearly at that goal and almost everything done should be looked at with the question of whether that act will help or hurt the achievement of the goal of getting the mass majority of the population mobilized, out in the streets, and demanding change.
Anonymous
I don't know what to tell you...
I don't have the answers.
Anytime we waste here talking, philosophizing, hypothesizing, or worrying about what should be done and not doing is just going to make things worse.
Anonymous
Please understand that you are in a different situation, at a different time, in a different country.
What may have worked then may not work here and now.
I certainly do not want ANYONE to get hurt.
Enough people are hurting right now and it does not need to get any worse.
Be careful...
Anonymous
Unfortunately we are just superior animals! The 1% knows that much better than us! Maybe they are not aware enough about the meaning of superior!
Anonymous
Thank you, Adbusters. Everyone tells me I think too much, I read too much, and that I talk about things that they do not understand. Thinking deeply isn't hard. It doesn't feel like I'm thinking much when I confuse people, so I don't recognize their criticism. So many issues have been raised in your magazine that are deep and compelling. Thank you for being smart enough to carry on a real conversation about real things.
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