The Occupy Movement has officially become a meme complete with poignant and astute commentary on the current state of economic affairs in the holiday season. If nothing else has come of it other than attempts at accountability and transparency in online representations of itself and larger organizations outside of the movement (this link was originally meant to go to a Washington Post article about the Obama administration weeding out economic corruption in government bureaucracy, but it is almost impossible to find-this link is a little conspiracy laden in regards to my earlier parenthetical remark, but the point of redacting online material and influencing popular opinion by manipulating the tools that can be used honestly to foster open dialogue in democratic societies is par for the course in politics and might explain why I couldn’t find it [because old people believe everything they see on TV and are the only ones that participate in prelim polls]; or the Kardashians and the Lohans might be ‘Occupying’ editorial news at the moment [because the kids think it’s cool]).

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Screaming at people that are just as frustrated as you, that are just trying to work, is kind of hypocritical. Incidents like this were the death knell to the OWS movement long before it was struck at it’s epicenter. 

I think people are just going to get more frustrated now that consequences are starting to be felt; however, there are still people looking for jobs while others protest in parks. There are still others working for free to ‘maintain marketable job skills,’ for when the dust settles and those of us lucky enough get chained to a desk have to get back to work.  There are still those who are just getting into this shitty situation that we are all dealing with.

Although, vacating private property under the guise of hygienic clean up measures is not going to stop whatever OWS will become when it grows up and starts reading terms of service agreements before it pays bills; but that is something the people in the atrium of the Deutsche bank should think about when they make decisions for the rest of them or us 99% folks: however that works. (sorry for the loaded language and lack of snarky self-aware commentary in parenthetical-i’ll get back to it when the interweb makes me giggle or go wide eyed in astonishment [had to use it-kindah works-poignant contemporary social satire-ish … whatever-shut it])

(I had to put this video here instead of the one that was here before because it was taken down. PIPA and SOPA are taking some preemptive action or it was a false YouTube account that just got deleted. Either way, I am slightly inconvenienced. Dec. 3, 2011)

I finally understand how things are working in the culture that is developing within OWS because of the self proclaimed ‘patriot of the people’ himself, Colbert.  It seems really organic and democratic, but so is the system of discourse that already exists politically, in an old crotchety way.  The one that we’ve got is just a lot further along.  There still has to be a way to reconcile the grievances of the movement with the system that already exists, because neither is going anywhere.

This guy has a good idea.  At least Colbert’s Super PAC found something to do with all of the unlimited funds it could potentially use towards political agendas, legally; thereby, creating a post-modern social commentary in making a difference and highlighting the difference (in enacted legislation that affects the minds and lives of the under-educated penny-less huddled masses by ivy league gads that got lucky enough to push paper after grad school)-trippy.

But do Ann Coulter’s comments still matter to anyone outside of the beltway and are cigs cool again?  I’m still lost on this whole mess.  Does Cain have the signatures to be on the ballot and can he get them, now?  Whose ‘black’ am I?  I’m so confused.

Now I really don’t think that anybody is going to allow the premeditated lynching of “rich people.”  But Occupy and it’s organizers need to realize that it is becoming a part of American culture in the ironic tone of hipster sarcasm.  Just to be meta-John Stewart’s ‘Moment of Zen’ last night was showing daytime television footage of Halloween costume ideas; and the one in focus was “the Occupy Protester.”

I’m not going to explain the levels of irony because my head almost exploded the moment I watched.  Digression aside, middle-class liberals seeking to represent the entire “99%” is just as ironic as wearing a costume to look like one-becoming voluntarily homeless for a couple months or stumbling drunk into people trying to make a difference in their own way (just did what I said I wasn’t-shoot!).

You can’t “destroy the machine.”  This is a lazy post and I’m not gonna link to any examples of the obvious areas that need clarity.  If you wanna see it-Google it (sorry for giving into branded misnomers again-*use the search bar*)

I figured out how to get the ‘what’ I talked about in one of my last posts.  Organize marches to voting booths for the stupidest thing to make a point that the popular vote can make a difference in smaller legislation matters and will matter in a few months to scare the competition.  There’s lots of things that people can vote on that no body pays attention to.  The only people that do are old or crazy (contradictions abound).  So get on it.

In as much as the parallel is drawn between tea and micro-brew, that’s something that you guys have yet to do (forgive the lyricism-waiting for exports can get boring).

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A change in the rhetoric and public condemnation are par for the course for media scrutiny of insensitivity, but this video is just funny after that slip up he had.  As much as politics is a media centered endeavor I don’t think that Herman Cain speaking out against a rock at a farm leased by Perry is going to endear him to black voters.

President Obama’s current rhetoric towards black voters may not either.  But this conversation on the polarized racial dialectic and it’s impact on the next big election coming turns into a bad white vs. black joke way too fast (white folks do this-womp … womp and black folks, oh they do this-WOMP!  WOMP!  WOMP!)

I can’t remember if Chris Rock or Dave Chapelle (no, he didn’t actually fly to Mars with Bibble-this happened to Kat Williams too. he didn’t fly to mars either.) expounded on the joke (black people vs. n-words-Chris Rock just remembered).  I think this explains how hard it is to talk to “black people,” when it comes to going directly after votes or even support for legislation.  We are not all n-words and we all didn’t get scholarships to Harvard but we do all have something to say.  You can’t lump us all in together without missing someone.  

The President enacting legislation that can be seen as giving more power to the people seems to be his way of reaching out to his base and seperating his agenda from “Corporate America,” the faceless villain that got us into this mess.  To get out of it and so it doesn’t happen again people have to be informed and ready to make decisions or at least able to articulate what they want beyond “greedy people paying for their mistakes.”

Cornell West is a whole different breed altogether.  That man makes me want to get 2 Ph.D’s just to catch up to however many he has.  Him taking the time to go down to the #occupywallstreet movement just gives it more credence.  A movement that started with middle class suburban kids sleeping in Zuccotti Park just proves that even if we’re all aiming to be Kanye at least we’ll have a chance at being a working Joe Schmoe with kids that will stir the pot after we couldn’t care less.  I don’t think that they are going anywhere.  Where do they have to go anyways?  I think sleeping on a park bench until everything resets is a better story to tell than couch surfing until it fixes itself.

It’s not news that rich people were getting richer while people were getting poorer way before it all came to a head two years ago; but, now the unrest that has been building over the past few years in the US is no longer being portrayed in movies and people are acting out in public.

Yesterday an editor for the Daily Caller tweeted:

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Wall Street protesters cuffed, pepper-sprayed during ‘inequality’ march http://thedc.com

The Arab Spring, the protests in Europe over hikes in education prices and class shifts to offset the economic atmosphere on the other side of the ocean is spreading in America.  The looming government shut down over bill passage is just another spark on the powder keg that is the unified sentiment of most people now-a-days.  I hope some headway can be made within the next few weeks and real progress comes of it.

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