Some solid chatter here, which is nice to see, and a tough act to follow with the onslaught of .gif images, though. I'd almost swear I was lost in the world of YTMND or something. Before I chime in more about the OWST movement I've gotta do a bit of house-cleaning first regarding a very persistent little troll......
Eyebrowsbv31 said:
Nope. Nothing in saint louis. We have jobs.
Don't get a liberal arts degree. Problem solved.
Hi there, user Eyebrowsbv31. I doubt you have ever noticed but I've only ever bothered to respond directly to any of your posts
once, and only once. And there is a reason for this: responding to the remarks of a meathead ideologue such as yourself generally seems to encourage you to spout more of your opinions about the world- the last thing anyone wants. But since you seem to pull your own chord I've shown below why I don't take anything you say seriously. Nobody should since you have a record for making an anti-intellectual ass of yourself. To wit:
- In one thread
you disparaged people that smoked cannabis and in a separate thread
revamped your position when you realized it was unpopular. What are you smoking?
-In another thread you
slammed the idea of protesting the Iraq War while chiding that people in Libya needed to supported. You then
mocked the Libyan uprising in another thread a few months later. Come clean: are you Gaddafi, or not?
-Though your libertarian angst abounds everywhere, in this thread
you expressed gratitude for Obamacare because it allowed your mother, someone afflicted with lupus, the possibility of receiving health insurance. Answer me: was the history of cognitive dissonance covered in any of your college courses?
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So there you go: contradiction, cowardice, and hypocrisy from the one known as Eyebrowsbv31. If your neurotic ramblings are head-ache inducing then I would also add they're easy to find since you have a fixation with destroying any kind of useful dialogue in my threads on GR. Please understand this: aside from your
toady you are barely tolerated on GR. While It's been amusing watching your confidence grow on this forum over the years as you poked around for support and encouragement I'd rather see the days return when useful discussions took place here about games, art, and culture across the world. So there's my second ever response to you: the one that puts a bell around your neck.
Getting back to the topic at hand.
I'm out in New Haven now and thinking of heading to the movement in NYC sometime in the next few weeks. Like I remarked at the top there's some good chatter here about the Occupy movements across the U.S. but I don't think people here seem to understand how nebulous the movement really still is. The mainstream media still really doesn't know what to do with it, something not surprising since that would require actual journalism, but there is no doubting the global nature of this movement. Literally across hundreds of cities, hell, across hundreds of
countries, people are rising up against institutional corruption, be they government or corporate in nature. And it's fascinating.
I think what's finally snapped is the 99%'s tolerance level for the stratification of wealth in the U.S. Being poor is not a state of mind but a reality, and I don't think people are content to sit back anymore and cheerfully conclude "I guess I have to work harder." The value of the minimum wage
has suffered in the past 30 years. There are
only five other countries with more unequal distribution of wealth than the United States. When you actually research the data on the matter it leads to conclusions that make you kind of sick. Instead of ralphing out of agony, though, people are getting up and taking to the streets about what they want to see changed.
I don't think this is entirely without precedent. There was a Civil Rights March in the U.S. when black people decided they were fed up with being looked at as subhuman. They rose up in non-violence and relentlessly pursued their goals- a fight still going on to this day. I think that's exactly what the people in Zuccotti Park are doing right now- whether they risk getting maced and beaten if it comes to it. Fighting for a level-playing field in this country. The bottom line is that millions are coming together against massive corporate and government wrongs present across the world that have been going on for way too long. I can support that kind of cause.
The Arab Spring was the inspiration for all of this, and I only imagine where the movement will go from here.