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So, I'm moving this month. There are profound ways to talk about moving and there are snappy, amusing ways to do it. I feel it's a little of both, but I'm not getting anything good down from my attempts to write on it, so screw it. It's basically gonna happen, it's going to happen before it strictly needs to, and I'm basically doing it so that I'm not waiting to do it. Change is fine, but I don't care for anticipation.
And I guess that's that.
It's a pretty clear demarcation of a period in my life. That's what's profound. Not that the era was really impressive, but that it's so unusual to be able to see a time, clear as a chapter break, pass over me. When you say a new page is turned, how often can you feel the paper between your fingers?
Ok. So. This Occupy movement. I didn't really think it was that complicated, but it's already been easily mischaracterized. The popular right-wing concept is of a bunch of privileged people sitting outside demanding free money, and I'm already sick to death of trying to break the concept down into something easily understood.
Put extremely simply, there's a titanic gulf in economic disparity. Work is hard to find, and when it's found, it's often underpaying. A systemic issue is turned into a moral one. It's not. The very top tier of our population is comfortably entrenched, and the system works exceptionally well for them, but it doesn't work very well for the vast majority of us.
It's fundamentally a reform movement asking for increased accountability.
I've got a dog in this race. I'm biased. But what I'm not trying to do is take the bread out of people's mouths. What I'm saying, though, is that bread has already been taken out of people's mouths, and that's bread that was there 20 years ago. I don't think it's ridiculous that we attempt to address that as a nation. Our policy makers won't have any incentive unless we make it so. I'll try to add my voice to the people this weekend.
And I guess that's that.
It's a pretty clear demarcation of a period in my life. That's what's profound. Not that the era was really impressive, but that it's so unusual to be able to see a time, clear as a chapter break, pass over me. When you say a new page is turned, how often can you feel the paper between your fingers?
Ok. So. This Occupy movement. I didn't really think it was that complicated, but it's already been easily mischaracterized. The popular right-wing concept is of a bunch of privileged people sitting outside demanding free money, and I'm already sick to death of trying to break the concept down into something easily understood.
Put extremely simply, there's a titanic gulf in economic disparity. Work is hard to find, and when it's found, it's often underpaying. A systemic issue is turned into a moral one. It's not. The very top tier of our population is comfortably entrenched, and the system works exceptionally well for them, but it doesn't work very well for the vast majority of us.
It's fundamentally a reform movement asking for increased accountability.
I've got a dog in this race. I'm biased. But what I'm not trying to do is take the bread out of people's mouths. What I'm saying, though, is that bread has already been taken out of people's mouths, and that's bread that was there 20 years ago. I don't think it's ridiculous that we attempt to address that as a nation. Our policy makers won't have any incentive unless we make it so. I'll try to add my voice to the people this weekend.
