Occupy Wall Street better defend its identity

Status
Not open for further replies.
Ziggurat said:
Brilliant.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure why you are saying that is "brilliant"... is it "brilliant" because Jon Stewart is using humor to report the "nonsensical side" of the OWS movement? Or is it brilliant that maybe, possibly, most likely, closely you might find it amusing that cops are using their might and strong arm to push these people out of the park?
 
Mr.D said:
Occupy Wall Street : Movement :: Brownian Motion : Movement

In both cases any goal reached is entirely by accident.
Click to expand...

Well screw it then... let's pack it up and never protest EVER AGAIN! That will solve all problems, eh?

Drawing circles with chalk ROCKS DUDE!
 
WOW... just WOW! JREF forum has really gone downhill! Incredible! I might as well frequent The Free Republic if I want to hear this kind of talk!

Really, I thought we were skeptics and critical thinkers here? Oh gee, that's right! Discussing politics really has nothing to do with critical thinking... SHUCKS! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
Brainster said:
Timothy Leary gave a speech at my college around 1976, and I happened to ask him afterwards what he thought had ended the student activism of the 1960s, and his response was the Kent State shootings. I wonder if we aren't headed towards something similar with the OWS protestors; whether that's what it will take.

BTW, I think you're wrong calling the National Guardsmen involved murderers. It was certainly a tragic mistake for them to have opened fire.
Click to expand...

Off topic:
I saw Timothy Leary speak at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA in the early 90's. I had read several of his books and enjoyed them. He mostly spoke about virtual reality and the possibility of living forever. Half the audience had no idea who he was but were fulfilling class obligations.
 
portlandatheist said:
Off topic:
I saw Timothy Leary speak at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA in the early 90's. I had read several of his books and enjoyed them. He mostly spoke about virtual reality and the possibility of living forever. Half the audience had no idea who he was but were fulfilling class obligations.
Click to expand...

Yeah, the speech I saw was about an acronym he had come up with called SMILE; it stood for Space Migration, Intelligence^3 (cubed) and Life Extension.
 
Oh, by the way, Saint Elizabeth Warren, who likes to say she laid the intellectual foundation for Occupy Wall Street, refuses to sign off on Occupy Harvard.

“Elizabeth hasn’t signed the petition, but she’s been standing up to Wall Street and the big banks for years and that’s what she’ll do in the Senate,” said Sullivan in a statement. “People are frustrated and protesting for change, Elizabeth understands that.”
Click to expand...
 
dc1971 said:
WOW... just WOW! JREF forum has really gone downhill! Incredible! I might as well frequent The Free Republic if I want to hear this kind of talk!

Really, I thought we were skeptics and critical thinkers here? Oh gee, that's right! Discussing politics really has nothing to do with critical thinking... SHUCKS! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

So you're a True Skeptic™, and anyone that's sceptical of Occupy Wall Street, the far-left ideologies they embrace, the tactics they use and the nonsensical drivel they chant is not a True Skeptic™?
 
dc1971 said:
Maybe you could check Andrew Breitbart's Twitter feed?
Click to expand...

The web was awash yesterday with live streams and frequently updated blogs and reports (including in mainstream newspapers).


dc1971 said:
WOW... just WOW! JREF forum has really gone downhill! Incredible! I might as well frequent The Free Republic if I want to hear this kind of talk!

Really, I thought we were skeptics and critical thinkers here? Oh gee, that's right! Discussing politics really has nothing to do with critical thinking... SHUCKS! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

I agree. It's bizarre and low-grade but Randiesque skepticism and reactionary authoritarianism tend to walk hand in hand for some reason.

Authoritarianism restricts one's ability to think critically.

Authoritarianism: "Practice of management in which orders are issued with threats of punishment for disobedience, and which is based on the belief that status and power differences in an organization are appropriate and must be maintained."

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/authoritarianism.html
 
Last edited:
Arundhati Roy, speaking at the People's University in Washington Square Park, New York, held at Judson Memorial Church, 16 November 2011:


""""Today, we know that the "American way of life" – the model that the rest of the world is meant to aspire towards – has resulted in 400 people owning the wealth of half of the population of the United States. It has meant thousands of people being turned out of their homes and jobs while the US government bailed out banks and corporations – American International Group (AIG) alone was given $182bn.

The Indian government worships US economic policy. As a result of 20 years of the free market economy, today, 100 of India's richest people own assets worth one-fourth of the country's GDP while more than 80% of the people live on less than 50 cents a day; 250,000 farmers, driven into a spiral of death, have committed suicide. We call this progress, and now think of ourselves as a superpower. Like you, we are well-qualified: we have nuclear bombs and obscene inequality.

The good news is that people have had enough and are not going to take it any more. The Occupy movement has joined thousands of other resistance movements all over the world in which the poorest of people are standing up and stopping the richest corporations in their tracks. Few of us dreamed that we would see you, the people of the United States on our side, trying to do this in the heart of Empire. I don't know how to communicate the enormity of what this means.""""


'We are all Occupiers
People the world over salute the Occupy movement for standing up to injustice and fighting for equality at the heart of empire'

 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Back
Top Bottom