Mike : Nice analysis ; your observations all make sense. Still, there is another way of looking at the situation. But let me emphasize the fact that your views are perceptive. Ultimately there need to be solutions for complicated problems and anger is anything but good enough. However, you can look at this in a positive way. The OWS movement is a start. It is also a barometer and, as such, has its own value. Regardless, in both the Tea Party and OWS we are looking at the consequences of : ( 1 ) a mass media that is an utter farce in terms of service to the public. The media educates people to almost nothing, it often misinforms people, it inculcates sick values, and it dumbs down nearly everything. This being the case, while there are more factors to put onto the balance, what does anyone expect from the public except poorly informed reaction ? ( 2 ) two systems of thought that are based on ideologies that should have been flushed down the toilet decades ago, or longer. Namely, Economic Marxism and laissez faire free trade horse manure. The flaws in each should be obvious to one and all. That this is not the case is due to # 1, above, and to vested political interests which promote their respective obsolete economic worldviews. The task, as I see it anyway, is to foment a desire for objectivity in economic theory. Any idea how to do this ? Billy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- 10/20/2011 [email protected] writes:\
My annoyance with OWS is directed more toward the Marxist element of the movement, which is just using a down economy to peddle a known failure. It's not much different than how the Tea Party repackaged libertarianism with evangelical elements and turned it into a movement. There's nothing new here. Unlike a lot of these countries with large scale protests and demonstrations, we actually have a system of government which allows constructive change, so it's disappointing that these protesters insist on keeping up with this "we're angry and have no new ideas" charade rather than doing something productive. Do they actually want me to sympathize with brute anger that exists without a sense of reason? Anger is easy. Solutions are hard. Protesters went the easier route. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
