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How the Occupy (enter city here) Movement has Become a Joke
Per CBS News:
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The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has spread from one tent city to another across this country, has finally arrived at Harvard University....It certainly is ironic that the Occupy movement has reached Harvard, considering that this is the school that produces many of the nation's one percenters. And that's never going to change. To protect its elite status, Harvard will continue to educate the students of the nation's wealthiest families, which it has been doing for centuries.
Come on now, Harvard. This is too ironic for me.
"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance".- T.S. Eliot
Re: How the Occupy (enter city here) Movement has Become a Joke
This movement has been a joke from the beginning. It had no real chance at going anywhere. If we really want to produce a substantive change, let's get some leadership out there and start rational discourse that will lead to clearly defined goals and then move in a unified manner towards that goal.
Re: How the Occupy (enter city here) Movement has Become a Joke
I think this is the closest attempt to unity that we have, though. To me, its just really ironic. "Lets all sit and do nothing for days on end! That'll show the government that we deserve money!"
"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance".- T.S. Eliot
Re: How the Occupy (enter city here) Movement has Become a Joke
That leads me to think that they aren't really mad at the government. They're just angry they don't have as much money as they think they deserve or that they used to have. And that in itself makes it even more of a joke.
Re: How the Occupy (enter city here) Movement has Become a Joke
I think that the feeling of entitlement is the real issue here- they don't want change for anyone but themselves. Not the general whole.
"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance".- T.S. Eliot
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