Clarity

[avevale_intelligencer]

To the friend who told me that he could not see his way to supporting the Occupy movements because they had no clear manifesto, this is the response I was not intelligent enough to be able to give. It won't change his mind, but it explains to me why I found his reason unsatisfying on a subliminal level.

Comments

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

And this is the part where I say "you have a gardener?"

But yes. The point is not to get sidetracked into talking about who's going to wear the funny hat and whether the bullet points on the list of demands should be asterisks or those squiggly things. The point is to shout "THIS IS WRONG!" as loudly as possible, for as long as possible, because the way the world is being run is indeed wrong. And this is what they're doing, and from the excessive violence with which the protests have been met, it would seem that the one per cent has a more positive view of its potential effectiveness, however defined, than even you or I do.

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

And this is the part where I say "I'm disabled" and if we don't keep our yards up in my city, we get fined a LOT of money. So, yes, I have a gardener.

The 1% is rightly afraid of us -- we are multitudes, they are few, we have much to gain and little to lose, and for them it's the opposite.

That said, I'm a cynic about anything coming of it.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Good grief, that's disgusting. Whether you do it yourself or not, a garden should be something you have for enjoyment, not something you've GOT to keep up to on pain of punishment. I'm glad they don't have rules like that around here. Especially since the last time we could afford to try paying someone to help us with the garden, they pinched all our plant pots and our bench and (when we complained) brought the bench back in bits. We were not happy. Wish Carlos well for me.