I Like It: Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Political Disobedience’ – NYTimes.com
October 18, 2011 1 Comment
I think we’re all really sick of doing what the politicians tell us. Well, except for the Tea-Baggers, who don’t know they’re being controlled at all. (Bank bailouts? We were protesting bank bailouts?)
But I think it’s important to explain what the hippies are doing:
Occupy Wall Street is best understood, I would suggest, as a new form of what could be called “political disobedience,” as opposed to civil disobedience, that fundamentally rejects the political and ideological landscape that we inherited from the Cold War.
Mind you, we all know it’s not just hippies, but even if that’s what the media wants to focus on let’s agree to call it civil disobedience.
Read the whole opinion here: Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Political Disobedience’ – NYTimes.com.
About Jack Jamison
Here’s my favorite paragraph from this outstanding article that shines a light on matters hiding in plain sight:
“By reinvigorating the myth of free markets, the financial and political architects of our economy over the past three plus decades — both Republicans and Democrats — were able to disguise massive redistribution toward the richest by claiming they were simply “deregulating” when all along they were actually reregulating to the benefit of their largest campaign donors.”