I haven't insisted on anything, except that cheese whiz on a steak sandwich, or anything really, is a crime against humanity. Since I'm not camping out, I don't think I have any right to start providing instructions. But this is just a conversation.
It's delusional to try and craft some model legislation for the occupation to advance. It is useful IMO to think about demands in the manner of talking points, distilled to slogans for some purposes. 'This is what we are for.' It's not as if something needs to be hammered out and voted on and pledged to, just that messages with some focus emerge. Think of it this way: if you had been sleeping in the park for a month and a journalist asked why YOU were there, what would you say? Would would be the best thing to say. I think this is the spirit of Carrol and the Flaneur. If not I will humbly retire to my bureaucratic bunghole. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Sandwichman <[email protected]> wrote: > Right. My demand is "Repeal the Coase theorem." Ha ha. > > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I do not understand at all this fuss over "demands." >> >> I suppose the model is the industrial strike or the building occupation. >> A group interferes with or s tops the operation of some entity (a >> factory or a university) and declares that the stoppage will end only >> when a specific authority which is the target grants certain demands. >> >> But OWS is a nation-wide (even world wide) expression of general >> repugnance at the current ordering of civic and economic life. To make >> specific demands (on whom?) would be very nearly a betrayal of the whole >> outpouring of public anger. If these "demos" are aimed at anyone, it is >> not any entityu that coudl satisfy such demands but is aimed at us -- at >> the whole working-class of the United States. The implicit demand is >> that _we_ join them or, better actually, we go to work to build related >> actions and organizations in out community. Insisting that OWS make >> demands is playing in the sandbox. Juvenile. >> >> Carrol >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > > > > -- > Sandwichman > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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