"So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now, only one side is choosing violence. It is a battle in which members of Congress, with the collusion of the American president, sent violent, organized suppression against the people they are supposed to represent. Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits streams. Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications of their movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams of reform are not."
This is why I had hoped to see a radical change in the aesthetics of protest, a creative recall movement, in the style of "clean for Gene" in the sixties, something to avoid the echoes of clashes we've seen before, blowing minds rather than inviting confrontation. But it looks like it's going to be the same old story. More violence. More division. From 99-1% to 50-50%.
This is why I had hoped to see a radical change in the aesthetics of protest, a creative recall movement, in the style of "clean for Gene" in the sixties, something to avoid the echoes of clashes we've seen before, blowing minds rather than inviting confrontation. But it looks like it's going to be the same old story. More violence. More division. From 99-1% to 50-50%.
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