Posted by floatingbridge on December 12, 2011, at 18:32:04
In reply to Re: The top 1% » floatingbridge, posted by Dinah on December 12, 2011, at 17:17:32
I have a question. Is the OWS movement really about anger? And if it is, is it really directed at people or practices as Dinah said? I'm afraid I am lost in the numbers and the anger and who is who. I want equality and justice and peace. I get angry when I hear people lying,(not people on babble. I am speaking about media and the people that own them), and equivocating while people are suffering. I feel anger when I see people suffering and my country is the largest arms dealer in the world. I feel angry when my country does not support global environmental practices that
will continue to make this earth a beautiful planet for my son's generation. I feel angry when my country shelters loan sharks that buy Congolese debt, for example, when their people are dying from unsanitary water and malaria, and my country is the only country (I believe) that honors these outrageous debts.I could go on. But that is where I feel my anger is directed. Not at an abstract 1%. Not at a class or group of tax payers. In fact, that makes my head spin.
Is that what the OWS movement has become? Is it really
just about anger? Or is the anger another red herring to get people to talk against each other and about anything but what is really going on. People starving. Losing their homes. By the thousands in this country. And worldwide...? Deforestation? Illegal debt? Illegal war? Strip mining? Unfair work practices? Child soldiers? And when it comes to the United States, who will stand up for us?Well, I find myself the dormouse once again. Silly me. Someone had better pour some tea upon my nose.
It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we make of what has been done to us.
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