Now I've heard it all. After the "Arab Spring," and now weeks of watching literally aimless people occupying Wall Street and center-city areas of metropolitan centers across the country with causes as random as "pay my tuition," I now see that the restless natives want to occupy Detroit.
Occupy DETROIT??? Are they out of their minds???!! What's this: Protesting a city that represents the failure of their own agenda? For a good laugh, read Henry Payne's article, "Occupy Detroit: Why Here?" (NOR, The Corner, October 16, 2011).
[Hat tip to C.B.]
Hey, Detroits almost vacant. Sounds like Detroit should open the doors and welcome the protestors. They won't even have to sleep in tents. They can squat in vacant houses and strip malls.
ReplyDeleteI'll gladly pay for the 30 year old school bus and the first tank of gas to ship 40 protestors out of Portland to help get things started in Detroit.
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Occupy Detroit: Nothing says 'Down With Capitalism' like a city dead from oppressive socialistic governance - Long live the welfare state!
ReplyDeleteSorry, as a former Detroiter... I can only laugh at the idea.
There is surely genuine evil on Wall Street to protest, if you consider the major anonymous kingpins of the financial establishment, which, together with that clandestine private club of international manipulators, the Federal Reserve, seek world domination. Yet most of these urban occupiers of cities sound like crazy loons without a cause indeed. Compared to the protesters from the 1960s, who at least had a relatively clear sense of cause (if an often misguided one), these protesters of today are truly rebels without a cause. The irony is that Obama seems to cotton to them, while he himself is beholden more to the private interests of Wall Street bankers than most Republican candidates (entre Ron Paul).
ReplyDeleteThe protest of the sixties began with the aimless malcontented meanderings of the beat generation of the fifties. These yuppie boobs are the larval stage of the next wave of protest, a stage that the current economic slough will do plenty to nurture.
ReplyDeleteIn the sixties, if it hadn't been Vietnam, it would have been something else. The time was simply ripe for it. Then, just like now, people were alienated from God and one another, pissed off and too stupid to know why.
These latest groups are even worse in their callowness and their aping of absurd gestures from past decades. But look to the next decade or so -- that is where the real danger lies. In the sixties, my generation was startled out of its selfish, malcontented posing into genuine rage by the specter of having to go to war and get their keisters shot off. With volunteer armed forces, that is no longer an issue.
So what will the next flashpoint issue be? My guess is economic calamity fostered by the collusion of government and corporations in establishing policies which have shipped out jobs and prosperity from America to the Third World. Most people haven't put all the pieces together yet. Sooner or later they will, and at that point we may look back to the sixties as an era of relative tranquillity.