Do any of you know what's going on? Why are all those people in the street? Reminds me of a song, "There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear..." Really, there is nothing on my local news or in the paper. So of course I'm Googling 'People in the street' and it seems that some of my fellow citizens have a few complaints about shenanigans on Wall Street. Okay, I need to check twitter...nothing in trending topics...hmmm what's this hash tag #OWS? Looks like a lot of people are serious about changing the way business is done. Occupying Wall Street...that takes real balls. I need video to supplement words so my next stop on the info byway is YouTube...I can't believe it but I am watching a couple of women getting maced! Just standing there and bam! a face full of pepper spray! Why are those peaceful protesters being arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge? This does not make sense. How is this story not in the mainstream news?
Well I don't know why the news hounds aren't all over this but at least my social media brethern are on the case. The hijinks those rich wall streeters are up to remind me of an article I read recently in the New York Review of Books by Russell Baker, Anarchists & Capitalists . It's about the economic situation at the beginning of the 20th century. Here's a quote that strikes me as relevant "...How can capitalism be best served in the new century?...by going along with the predatory capitalism dominant during the last decades of the nineteenth century...modest government restraints on unbuttoned capitalism at its ugliest....was an offensive intrusion on capital's right to freedom; to the reformists it was a sensible way to shelter capitalism from enraged attack by society's losers: the dreaded Populists, the terrifying (William Jennings) Bryan, the steadily growing labor unions." We don't have to be doomed to endlessly repeating history...do we? I think the OWS'ers are on the right track it's about time the "dreaded" hoi polloi got together and...oops, just lost my internet connection on the laptop, thank jesus for smartphones...hmmm this is odd, my phone is working but I can't get to my website...or twitter...same with Facebook. At least I can still send a text to my ISP and get this fixed...shit now my phone is dead. Not to worry probably just a glitch in the network. Anyway, where was I, oh yeah the hoi polxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
That's all he has for now
Well I don't know why the news hounds aren't all over this but at least my social media brethern are on the case. The hijinks those rich wall streeters are up to remind me of an article I read recently in the New York Review of Books by Russell Baker, Anarchists & Capitalists . It's about the economic situation at the beginning of the 20th century. Here's a quote that strikes me as relevant "...How can capitalism be best served in the new century?...by going along with the predatory capitalism dominant during the last decades of the nineteenth century...modest government restraints on unbuttoned capitalism at its ugliest....was an offensive intrusion on capital's right to freedom; to the reformists it was a sensible way to shelter capitalism from enraged attack by society's losers: the dreaded Populists, the terrifying (William Jennings) Bryan, the steadily growing labor unions." We don't have to be doomed to endlessly repeating history...do we? I think the OWS'ers are on the right track it's about time the "dreaded" hoi polloi got together and...oops, just lost my internet connection on the laptop, thank jesus for smartphones...hmmm this is odd, my phone is working but I can't get to my website...or twitter...same with Facebook. At least I can still send a text to my ISP and get this fixed...shit now my phone is dead. Not to worry probably just a glitch in the network. Anyway, where was I, oh yeah the hoi polxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
That's all he has for now
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