How the "occupy wall street" movement has turned into "evict anarchist tent city in our public spaces" movement is a classic example of how humans destroy themselves. It reminds me of the time i went out to bike in critical mass and the Mayor of Vancouver at the time was there with his family... likely to support the whole idea, and he was ringed by some lunatics screaming obscenities at him over the state of humanity. The chant "we are not blocking traffic, we are traffic" became hijacked with anarchist gibberish. Hell i agree 100%, we got fleeced with regard to the "economy"... the only good i can see that came out of the economic collapse is that when i go to work i don't have to listen to all of these "market gurus", or "house flipping geniuses", who think they know the answers... all those suckers that rode the Nortel wave all the way to the bottom thinking that they were Wall street kings found out that no, you can't out guess the market after all. Now they just shut up and do their job, or part of it anyway.
I Loved the idea of taking your money out of the banks and putting it into credit unions... i would love to see everybody cancel their cell phone service, cancel their cable and refuse to buy anything that is not absolutely necessary... but lets face it, that ain't going to happen... the people that live like that are in the tents, and i don't believe that that was necessarily their goal when they started out on that path. For sure, I'm for housing the homeless, even if it costs me a bit more. I believe in the idea that my standard of living will be higher if i can bring up the mean standard of living... and that's what it's all about... personal gain. Everybody wants more for themselves, it's just a matter of how to get it, and what is the definition of "More". What was the William S Burroughs quote? "beware of whores who say they don't want money.. what they mean is they want MORE money".
As per usual the people who run the game understand the game better than those who play the game... the golden rule "he who has all the gold makes all the rules". They must have said "Uh oh what are we going to do" and then some wise person who has a great grasp on human psychology said "just sit back and let them eat themselves".
Way back in the 90's i had an old German man as a neighbour, Gunther was his name, and we got on quite well, he was a sniper who worked high level security jobs and taught marksmanship at the Armoury. He and his wife were Gardeners and would be up late at night plucking slugs and insects from their garden in typical obsessive German fashion and sometimes we would get into it. He would talk about the pure insane corruption in our society but the fact is that people won't riot in the streets over it because they have too much to lose, which i still think is true today... it's only when you have nothing left to lose that you hit the streets but then it's too late... you know what i mean? Is anybody skipping work to gather outside the government or banking buildings or do we just leave that job up to the unemployed and homeless to set up camp and then slowly have the press dismantle the whole Movement.
I remember one time i was out talking to Gunther and some other neighbour who played goalie came home from a late hockey game.. this guy was a pro military technology person and he and Gunther got into a heated argument over new tanks that were resistant to to hostile fire and could withstand attack... Gunther scoffed, and the goalie explained something about sensors that detected fire an then protected the wheel base.... to which Gunther replied "well then you just shoot the sensors out" and then back to the usual... they really got into it. It doesn't really matter what you do, there is a way around it, was the point.
The argument now is, are the camps legal? And the way the news articles read, one would think that public support is growing for the camps to be removed... which of course is a nice change of focus from why the camps got there in the first place which, from my simple memory was because society is structured in a grand Ponzi scheme to fleece working people and reward non working people with titles. Remember how we have to pay massive salaries to the people who run the economy in order to "get quality people", but yet they ran the bastard into the ditch, and then cried for a bailout and got it no strings attached. Remember that!
I have loathed the word "economy" for over a decade... that's why i wrote the song Mr. Greenie in the year 2000.
It takes thought, so you give it all you got
Economics is a saying, and it's you and me that's paying
I'm Mr Greenie, they Call me Greenie
Some people like to talk, but they standing on the same spot as the was yesterday, and the day before.
Some people like to shop, they shop until they drop but they bought the same things that they did the day before.
I'm Mr Greenie, they call me Greenie
can we give it all we got
I will not buy, i will not believe, I will not see what the tell me to see
I will not buy, i will not believe, I will not be what the tell me to be
I'm Mr Greenie.. they call me Greenie
G-R-E-E-N-I-E spelled mis correctly always talking on the past these things will never last
The song didn't win a Juno or anything like that but on the subject matter i feel the same way i did then, and i am right. If you called me a fucking ass hole i would be less offended than if you called me a Consumer. When i am referred to as a Consumer i hear "dumb gullible simple son of a bitch", and i am truly offended... one of the reasons i am a horrible salesman. A while back i decided to do what i do and if people like it great, if no then they can leave it... I don't like to ride on a train with a stack of waffles... cause they don't really know how to party. The best people to party with are the people who know who they really are.
In the end nothing is heard:
Nothing is Heard by superrobertson
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