#OWS

The MMM is hard at work taking the #OWS protesters to task for not having a thoroughly vetted solution mapped out to solve the problem of oligarchic capitalism within the context of a dysfunctioning democracy after just 2 weeks of unamplified dialogue and sleeping under tarps. Oh what a silly movement! And some of them don't even thoroughly understand the banking system! How can we take the dirty hippies seriously if they don’t have a Romney-esque 150 point plan to save America by tweeking the extreme periphery of our FUBAR system? Truth is, the majority of folks involved in social movements that have successfully fought for libertas and a fair shake in this country have not grasped the full panoply of the policy implications of their advocacy. Hi-dee-ho! That's not what social movements do, asscracks.

Did civil war combatants take to the killing fields because they felt passionately about the disagreements between the northern mercantilists and the land barons of the agricultural south regarding taxation? Were the mine workers in the 1890's (who successfully rallied around the simple idea of "they shouldn't be allowed to kill us if we strike for something better than starvation wages and imminently life imperiling conditions") self-conscious about not demonstrating a through understanding of the minutea of industrialists concerns related to coal production? Nope. What the MMM is asking #occupywallstreet to do in order to become "legitimate" is to abandon their wide open mesa of concern regarding the income and justice inequality effects of the corporate capture of government and instead to dive into a technocratic wonk-fest that will both bore us to tears and alienate ¾ of their field i.e., to be taken seriously by the Serious Class aka the groveling minions of the going concern, #OWS must cease to be a social movement  and adopt the tao of divisive micro-concerns that has all but paralyzed modern advocacy.

By not taking a standardized and iron clad position and meekly offering ameliorative recommendations to and through the staus quo, #OWS is making 2 pretty radical statements: 1. the current system cannot supply solutions and 2. solidarity will be maintained among all worthy causes. #OWS is offering UNITY against the relatively scant number of dickheads steering us towards oblivion in the interest of more OF the same FOR the same by insisting, thus far, on continuing to exist loosely under the big tent of THE TRUTH: the vast majority of Americans are being poorly served by corporate fascism.

You can't run a society on something this simple but you sure as shit can build a movement around it.