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Reflect on America
October 4, 2011 at 11:21 pm by Philip Morris

Reflect on America, AKA Occupy Wall Street, seems to have confused much of our media.

Most articles and electronic reports question the focus of the now thousands of people in dozens of cities supporting the original band of Occupy Wall Street.

Each person interviewed or questioned seems to have a slightly different take for their protests For a few it’s to support a humane capitalism that we seem to have once had but lost. For some it’s to release our democracy from the rampant influence of money. Others sleep in tents to bring attention to the extraordinarily disparate lives of poor and rich in our country. Some are unemployed and don’t want to be and cannot believe how little attention employment seems to get among our political leadership.

And, yes, it is all together not apparently a single clear message.

Except maybe it is. Unlike the Arab Spring or the western revolutions of our mythology, this is not about overthrow. There is no strongman or king or royalty to condemn, challenge or dethrone. It is Pogo, finally. In theory our systems and institutions should work, and we find ourselves at a time and place when they are failing us. in response we have gotten hostile to one another and incapable of the actions that might move us along.

There is, it seems to me, one clear message: is this what we want our country and society to be? Can’t we reflect on this deeply enough to decide that we can go beyond being our own enemy to making the changes that will “unblock” our own ability to cope with our own problems?

I have always believed that we can only achieve those things that we can agree to do together. Occupying Wall Street, the Wall Street of our minds, if you will, seems like a perfect place to remind ourselves of that.

http://blog.timesunion.com/philipmorris/reflect-on-america/657/

ok chubby 'poor guy'.....you betcha....I agree in the reality of my mind about your virtual wall street.....it was ALWAYS virtual.......and it is currently in the proces of morphing into another virtuality called INTERNET.....

envy is just as destructive as greed

Not really sure what point he is trying to make here.