10-17-2011, 12:45 PM
(10-17-2011, 12:13 PM)Quark Wrote:(10-17-2011, 05:27 AM)Taem Wrote: It's pretty much pandemonium from what I can gather! No clear voice, just much dissidence aimed at nothing in-particular - perhaps people angry because they are out of work? I had a nice talk with my brother-in-law today whom told me he went to a rally in Santa Barbara yesterday to support the opposition to higher taxes and tuition fees. We had a nice talk about the tuition fee part, to which he yielded that the protest against the fees didn't make much sense in the overall spirit of what he feels is "the movement" (no more government controlling privatized institutions). Is this what Occupy Wallstreet is really all about? I don't know. I hoping someone here can explain it better to me, because at this point, it honestly just seems like a bunch of wankers on a worldwide scale.
Read this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall...11-10?op=1
If you don't understand how our economic balance is absolutely horrible after reading that post, I don't know what to tell you. And no, I'm not touching the other thread. Kandrathe is in it.
Quark, I think anyone can see the problems with the economic balance. But I'm in the same boat as Taem in that, looking from outside and reading what I can in the news, the Occupy <insert here> movement seems chaotic, disorganized, and without clear goals. They are not yet unified and while some of the protesters are making very good points, there are a large number who are just "there" and have fringe goals that are unrealistic or just plain wrong.
I'm not saying everything is rainbows and sunshine. Everyone has a right to express his opinions and the Occupiers are exercising that right. I just can't really get behind them if they don't have a "demand" for their "occupation".
See you in Town,
-Z
-Z