There are apparently some organizational essentials which have not been embraced by a segment of our society. They seem pretty obvious but now we know that they are not.
An articulate young man who says clearly what they want. A world without leaders. Everyone is an autonomous entity. No one represents you. There is just you and 7 billion other individuals each doing, apparently, what they want to do. There is no state. (Memo to articulate young man: if no state then who is going to give you all of the things which you apparently want?)
I guess he's just going immediately to perfect Marxist communism where we all self-actualize and whatever we see laying around is ours for the taking until some other self-actualized individual decides he wants it. Clearly without leader or organizers we wouldn't have running water, flush toilets, manufacturing, public safety, healthcare research, environmental controls, or any of the benefits of society. The state is withered away from day one of his utopia. Why am I flashing on Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm already?
There would be no capitalism in this solipsistic paradise. Why would anyone invest something he had when there would be no possibility of success or reward? Since he does away with a hierarchic leadership structure you don't even have a centrally planned economy.
One can only conclude he longs for primitiveness in a grand scale.
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Wooooooo hooooooo!!
No more taxes and no more entitlement transferees!
I am trying to plan ahead for the day when his utopian wet dream becomes reality.
Anyone know of some sole-proprietor operated refineries where I can get some affordable gas for my SUV?
The day that we all become totally autonomous and answerable to no authority is the day that I form a partnership with my friends and swoop down on this guy and his friends. We'll capture them and sell them into slavery in the Sudan or some other place where simple labor is in high demand. And since they don't have the guns or a government to stop us, I and my partners in this purely capitalistic slave-trading venture will acquire wealth by capturing and selling hippies.
Want to get in on the ground floor, Ed?
I'm already in charge of a branch office in Alamo North. I was one of the early franchise holders.
I'm reminded of the Will Rogers Quote "I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat."
Funny the unorganized ones he was talking about held power in congress for 60 years.
You should check the latest CBS/NYtimes poll out that show 43% Public support for OWS, 30% undecided and then the 27% against. My gut feeling was that the Tera Party was about 20-25% of America seems to be holding true.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20125515-503544/poll-43-percent-agree-with-views-of-occupy-wall-street/?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.1
If the OWS leadership is smart their next targets should be Right Wing Talk Radio Stations. Advertisers might think twice about wading through a crowd of OWS protestors to get inside a a radio station.
KTAR would be the target of choice in Phoenix and I bet KLIF would be the oneEed Listens to in Dallas.
~Leadfoot
Typical Lead. So now you advocate disruption of free speech. Obstruction of free enterprise business? I suspect someone blocking my access to a corporate building might get jostled inadvertently by my passage.
Usually my car radio is on XM Channel 26. When I do listen to talk it's WBAP.
I would not trust any polls by CBS or NYT, leading members of the Obama Propaganda Machine. They are garbage. Such polls are just "supporting fire" for a "movement" created out of whole cloth by lackeys of Obama, so as to create an air of "urgency" for his vitally needed programs that are designed to save America from herself, and all those greedy pig capitalists who stand in the way of such a great visionary.
What the utter twit in the video is actually advocating for - if unwittingly - is not really "Lord of the Flies", though in practical terms, that's how it would work out if he got his wish.
No, what his type is all about is a return to feudalism (more like Animal Farm, yes, Ed). That's really all far lefties are all about. You see, it is certain that in his twenty-something "wouldn't-this-be-cool?" world, his "vision" would make him instantly entitled to a position of leadership and privilege. He'd be the one who is not "corrupted" by crass, narrow motives such as "profit". So, without producing anything of any objective value - he's above such hard drudgery - he'd be allowed to dictate how everyone else would live. People would naturally appreciate his "pure motives" and cede to his unfailingly just and clear-eyed authority.
He does not imagine for a second the consequences described above by "Murphy's Law".....but when that eventuality surfaced, his pure visionary utopian motives would justify ANY level of repression, in order so that his ends could be realized. It is really what is best for everyone, and anyone who doesn't see that and stands in the way, must be either re-educated, or eliminated.
That's how a seemingly harmless twit of this sort winds up like....Mao Zedong.
Yes, it is little more than feudalism, except that a bogus religiously-derived "divine right" that anoints the objectively unproductive leeches that take the form of lords and nobles in that system...is replaced by the high priests of "scientific socialism", or whatever catchy phrase they come up with to obscure their truly useless nature.
They want power and privilege without having to earn it. They start out by talking nonsense, and if they convince enough fools, the rest are convinced by force.
That is strikingly similar to the way the Islamic civilization of SW Asia/NE Africa operates, by the way. Same game, different only superficially. Islam is the answer to everything...submit to Allah and the will of those who interpret His law on earth, your local Imam or Ayatollah. Maybe this is why the far left and the Islamists get along so well...Is it the magnetic attraction of those who believe in nothing mated with those whose belief in something horrific is total...or is it two utopian totalitarian birds of the same feather, who are merely given different names?
"Advertisers might think twice about wading through a crowd of OWS protestors to get inside a a radio station."
Mr. Foot, for what purpose do the advertisers want to go inside the radio station? They are, and should be, indifferent to smelly nitwits carrying signs with sappy slogans. What advertisers are concerned about (and should be) is getting the most exposure for their marketing spend.
Sounds to me like the OWS people understand the shortcomings of their own movement - a small fan base (i.e., not many customers for their half-baked ideas).
It is painful to watch someone try to take the rules of pre-school (e.g., no meaness, no bullying, just get along, share, and all that they imply about an overarching adult authority to act as referee in a world where no one actually produces anything) and try to apply them to the real world where there are no adult authorities.
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