06-07-2012, 11:42 AM
I find the comparison between Occupy and TEA tactics telling and amusing.
Not to mention the dichotomy of a self-styled "unsentimental leftist" Harvard professor discussing the issue... Harvard students, who definitely either are or want to be part of the "1%". Nothing quite like the elite discussing a movement of ... the children of the elite.
The comparison with the Civil Rights movement is equally inept... the Civil Rights movement was made up quite significantly of people who were the victims. Based on a statistical study I noted, at least NYC's Occupy movement seems to have been well populated with the children of the 1%.
In the end, of course, the Occupy Movement's lack of organization and coherent structure and goals is and will continue to be its downfall.
Not to mention the dichotomy of a self-styled "unsentimental leftist" Harvard professor discussing the issue... Harvard students, who definitely either are or want to be part of the "1%". Nothing quite like the elite discussing a movement of ... the children of the elite.
The comparison with the Civil Rights movement is equally inept... the Civil Rights movement was made up quite significantly of people who were the victims. Based on a statistical study I noted, at least NYC's Occupy movement seems to have been well populated with the children of the 1%.
In the end, of course, the Occupy Movement's lack of organization and coherent structure and goals is and will continue to be its downfall.