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I'm getting some shit together because I've volunteered to be moral support on, like, a 20 hour road trip to the east coast and back for animal rescue. On one hand I feel like, "Shit. I feel like I need to do this, so I'm gonna." and on the other hand it's, "ROAD TRIP WHOOOO." Once we're an hour in, both are going to change to "Ho hum.", so anyway, that's what's on my plate right this moment.
In that vein, I've got some stuff I need to attend to. I've done some, and then I looked at the clock and thought "2:30 PM? What. That is ridiculous nonsense." because I don't have all day. I need to be somewhere at 6:30 to play a game then it's back to Belleville to sleep so I can rooooaaaaad trip.
Yesterday, Katie and I were talking about how ridiculously overwhelming shit has become. Much of the stuff we thought we could blow off as hippy shit or just ignore outright seems to be biting us in the ass. Basic shit like temperature and weather change and the beginnings of what appears to be a legitimate energy/gas crises on one side and the feeling that not only have we been fucked politically and economically, but we can actually see the brand and tread of the boot that's stepping on our face forever. It's gotten to the point that it doesn't just matter if we're working, because we can pretty clearly see what's changed. Someone made a mistake and the change was a bit too rapid, and now you've got thousands of people on American streets for months at a time calling that particular bluff.
There's a sense that everything's kind of screwed up and the people protesting arn't doing it because it's fun, though it might be exciting in the sense that someone might feel like they're actually doing something, no matter how small, to make their voice heard and to meet up with like minded people. No, it's being done because we're desperate and there's a definite sense that voting hasn't and won't make a difference. It doesn't matter how mad you are or how much it's reported if the people sent to be voted on all opt to screw you.
You can argue that some people are more gentle about it, but you're still pretty unhappy about the end result.
In that vein, I've got some stuff I need to attend to. I've done some, and then I looked at the clock and thought "2:30 PM? What. That is ridiculous nonsense." because I don't have all day. I need to be somewhere at 6:30 to play a game then it's back to Belleville to sleep so I can rooooaaaaad trip.
Yesterday, Katie and I were talking about how ridiculously overwhelming shit has become. Much of the stuff we thought we could blow off as hippy shit or just ignore outright seems to be biting us in the ass. Basic shit like temperature and weather change and the beginnings of what appears to be a legitimate energy/gas crises on one side and the feeling that not only have we been fucked politically and economically, but we can actually see the brand and tread of the boot that's stepping on our face forever. It's gotten to the point that it doesn't just matter if we're working, because we can pretty clearly see what's changed. Someone made a mistake and the change was a bit too rapid, and now you've got thousands of people on American streets for months at a time calling that particular bluff.
There's a sense that everything's kind of screwed up and the people protesting arn't doing it because it's fun, though it might be exciting in the sense that someone might feel like they're actually doing something, no matter how small, to make their voice heard and to meet up with like minded people. No, it's being done because we're desperate and there's a definite sense that voting hasn't and won't make a difference. It doesn't matter how mad you are or how much it's reported if the people sent to be voted on all opt to screw you.
You can argue that some people are more gentle about it, but you're still pretty unhappy about the end result.
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I read a lot of Salon.com and other liberal sites, though probably not as many as some people think. In those, there's a lot of mention that in some ways, the OWS or Occupy Wall Street groups have won something.
I think this is an incredibly dangerous line of thought, because after being broken up on several street corners, it's really easy to say, "Well, they've heard us, so it's up to them to do what we want." and go home, chart it a win, and be forgotten forever except by those who like to dredge out the score cards and tell you another way that protesting and actions have failed.
If you want my opinion which, normally, I expect people don't except that you're on my journal reading a post script to an already posted short essay*... anyhow, this is really the time to persist. To persist until something breaks. I don't mean violence, but that you can already hear the structure groan and buckle. You can already see how the state and local governments, popular media, pundits, and politicians are reacting.
OWS and likewise organizations have already been ejected from their grounds in many places. Sometimes it's with consent of the courts (St. Louis) and sometimes it's in direct violation of court order (New York), but they've decided to sweep these people off the streets. Fox and many media groups have made a 'good riddance' notice and told everyone that these scum are gone for good, and by returning and persisting, now they're law breakers - if they weren't before. The apparatus we've been talking about and protesting, like a corrupted immune system, has decided to purge the protestors.
It's make or break. The protestors absolutely must hold out for any change to happen. The only positive news I have to offer is that I think it's possible.
* I get off track pretty easy.