i know literally nothing about this occupation stuff except:
it's happening in wall street, and now other places, and now my town centre
it's about the lack of government regulated banking/ outrage at 1% of society (bankers) fucking up economy and expecting 99% (not bankers) to pay for it
i think it's a protest of some kind
obviously what i do best is to charge relatively uninformed into a hot topic public debate, brashly make bold statements, refuse any correction or advice and pigheadedly insult anybody who challenges me. SO
it's cool that people are doing it and all; i understand, i am part of the 99% not being a banker and all. i think what happened economy-wise is unjust because the bankers never actually got any handslapping at all and continue to award themselves bonuses while everyone else has their income slashed. this may be biased since i'm from england and sociopolitical (BIG WORD) unrest is at a massive high, and everyone hates the government so much that everything has sort of ground to a mad halt. i think people don't like obama very much at the moment and sarkozy and burlusconi are pretty much shitsacks anyway, so this whole economics thing is terrible timing like diahorrea on a first date. so all the dreadlocky type activist soy people have taken to the streets as usual because they will do it for literally anything, except now normal people have joined them. with tents and everything. i believe kanye west was there, although probably accidentally because he is a moron. everyone is being angry and finally doing something after being so monumentally shat on by banks, except it's pretty misdirected. just being in the street is not occupying it. i thought that's what petitions are for, all that jazz. i'm not a bastard, i just think being in a street is not going to change anything. i'm sitting in my house and that's not doing anything, so why if i am sitting in the centre of the city is that going to make a difference. it's like when people do the 'repost this status if you care about child abuse' thing on facebook, which is worse than not doing anything, because you're calling attention to a horrid thing, then pretending that you are actively involved in changing this thing, but not actually contributing anything at all because you're a stingy dick and all you think this issue is worth is a status on facebook. robin hood tax is something i'd be happy to protest for, so are the monumental nhs cuts david cameron promised he wouldn't make (THE DICK) and government regulated banking and or sanctions for the bankers who did all this. i just wouldn't sleep in the street to do so. i don't think it changes anything. but then again says me from the country where civil unrest leads ultimately to the pillaging of trainers and xboxes. but at least i'm not a faux activist.
-n.b i have a bank account and am thinking quite seriously about emptying it and keeping all my money in my house because i think i'm more paranoid than i have ever been and that is really saying something
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I've been to the park in which the OWS kids have rooted themselves. Though somewhat passionate, it does have a very shallow feel through the air. I believe, with it being NYC, some of them see this as a stage for their bravado and less a demonstration about economic issues. The lot of them are people our age, after all; people who aren't even old enough to generate enough money to be directly affected by the economy.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, there's that tidbit too; the police have Wall St. itself barricaded. They don't occupy that anymore. I'm not sure they ever really did.