LOL.... get this quote from Zucotti Park....
“Within every city there are people who freeload, who make people’s lives miserable. We just deal with it. We can’t kick them out.”
Was that a rich Wall Street Fat Cat? A city parks official? No, it was 26 year old protester Michael Glaser, who was totally unaware of the irony of his comment.
The NYMag article details how the devotees of the collective in Zucotti Park are coping with the way that personal property has crept into the discussion. Mostly they are resorting to physical violence.
To Shane Engelerdt, a 19-year-old from Jersey City and self-described former “head drummer,” this amounted to a Jacobinic betrayal. “They are becoming the government we’re trying to protest," he said. "They didn’t even give the drummers a say ... Drumming is the heartbeat of this movement. Look around: This is dead, you need a pulse to keep something alive.”
The drummers claim that the finance working group even levied a percussion tax of sorts, taking up to half of the $150-300 a day that the drum circle was receiving in tips. “Now they have over $500,000 from all sorts of places,” said Engelerdt. “We’re like, what’s going on here? They’re like the banks we’re protesting."
I once read a science fiction short story* about a man who created a fast reproducing bacteria, closed it up into a sealed environment, and then subjected it various stimuli to encourage the development of intelligence. That's what's happening now in Zucotti park. The myriad inefficiencies and failures of collective decision making are rearing their head, and these kids are either too stupid or too drunk on Koolaid to notice.
In the end I guess we can expect a totalitarian monster like Mao or Stalin to rise to the top and regiment the protesters - but not until after many of them have been subjected to needless hardship. Communism always attracts those types.
* It was called Microcosmic God if you want to look it up. It was excellent reading.
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Looking down at the OWS crowd from my office window:
They now have a Red Cross tent, a library, there was a full orchestra playing earlier, flags, information booths, a fake green lawn (not sure as to what purpose it serves yet). But still no porta-potties. With the McDonalds bathroom overwhelmed, the OWS has resorted to crapping in building stairwells.
Now we have a bunch of Jews across the street, standing in a circle, singing and dancing.
A moment ago, a brass marching band just fired up a toon.
All I can say is WTF? This is turning into a carnival of anger and bullshit with no clear focus or purpose.
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