"The Grand Jury Prize" is an alternative to first place in my annual "Favourite Things" lists. It did seriously take me a year to decide on my choice for 2011's, which you'll note was two years ago.
I suppose I'll also have to do one for 2012, but here's the long-overdue selection for the year previous:
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Showing posts with label Occupy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Occupy. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Occupy This
The following is a response to Pat's post on SOPA:
I don't think it's a matter of poor priorities. I think people are smart enough to realize that all of those big problems, the real issues are out of our control. They're completely hopeless. The Occupy movement will never amount to anything, because nobody is willing to go too far. SOPA was a rare cause within our reach.
Occupy is too nice. It's too civil, too quaint. "Oh, look at that, they're protesting. Aren't they cute?"
The only time a frustrated mob of poor-to-middle class people ever accomplished anything is when they dragged royalty out into the streets to be hanged. That's a lot harder to ignore than some teenagers shitting in a state park.
But if anyone does cross that line, then they'll become the bad guys! There's no middle ground, no peaceful negotiations. If a cop pepper-sprays a peaceful protest, he's the bad guy. But if a rioter throws a molotov cocktail, then the entire movement and everything it stands for becomes uglier.
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I don't think it's a matter of poor priorities. I think people are smart enough to realize that all of those big problems, the real issues are out of our control. They're completely hopeless. The Occupy movement will never amount to anything, because nobody is willing to go too far. SOPA was a rare cause within our reach.
Occupy is too nice. It's too civil, too quaint. "Oh, look at that, they're protesting. Aren't they cute?"
The only time a frustrated mob of poor-to-middle class people ever accomplished anything is when they dragged royalty out into the streets to be hanged. That's a lot harder to ignore than some teenagers shitting in a state park.
But if anyone does cross that line, then they'll become the bad guys! There's no middle ground, no peaceful negotiations. If a cop pepper-sprays a peaceful protest, he's the bad guy. But if a rioter throws a molotov cocktail, then the entire movement and everything it stands for becomes uglier.
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