hard to believe.

I miss Occupy. While I know the movement is still "going" I am still disappointed that we couldn't get more accomplished.

Black Friday was a reminder and a statement from the PTB - Protestors for fair wages and unions get arrested, mad shoppers who beast each other bloody for that last plastic dohickey get a free pass in the name of consumerism. We are not allowed to be free thinkers if it goes against the Prime Directive of Consumerism...

A very successful tactic, in the opening salvo of whats to come. It created awareness that the 1% are not like us, and we will never be like them.

Now, the next and more difficult step, as you mention, is for people to rethink the significance of institutions such as of our jobs, debt, consumerism, representation and governance, environmental sustainability etc. But before people can band together to change that, they must first change within. "Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves" - Che

Edit to add: Welcome to DU

I wish the majority would hurry up and wake up! Living in this illusion of 'everything is alright' consumerism is just sickening to me.

...thanks for the welcome!

And Fire Walk With Me's haiku...

Requiem for a Sink
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/http/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2415423


First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they take your #sink, then you win. #almost #OWS #OccupyBoston #occupythesink

And "The toaster warned us"?

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When Occupy kicked off, I thought we were finally going to see some real "hope and change", now that the shroud of repression we lived under during Bush had been lifted. Instead we got this...