Occupy Atlanta was in full repeat-chant mode when Congressman John Lewis arrived to speak.
You have to see the look on the face of Lewis as the occupiers conduct their repeat chant. The occupiers finally reject Lewis and he leaves. This cult-like, "community" does not suggest we are dealing with a bunch of independent thinkers, BUT there does seem to be some type of behind the scenes co-ordination of the occupiers in the different cities. These repeat-chants, for example, are conducted in most, if not all, of the occupied cities.
What in God's name was that? It would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic. You gotta love the egalitarianism spewed by the "one" guy leading the chant.
ReplyDeleteMy God, these people make a tea party rally look like a meeting of intellectuals. That was just too weird. Something tells me this is going to end very undemocratically and with a lot of dissolutionment for the protesters. I sure hope this is not the norm, but rather the exception of what is going on around the country with these #ows rallies. This will turn off the average American faster then threatening to raise their taxes.
ReplyDeleteThat is very strange. I was waiting for the Kool Aid to be served. The one thing I liked was that the group disregarded and made a mockery of one of our overlords. Is this a first step in society withdrawing its consent to be governed by the statists? I sure hope so.
ReplyDeleteThey are doing that because microphones aren't allowed by city ordinances without a permit.
ReplyDeleteOh my God. Imagine this group of genderless zombies useing the idea that no one is beter than anyone eles, to get us out of vietman. Or the Mid-East. Speaking of, glad we're spreading this, "our form of democracy", around the planet.
ReplyDeleteThey are protesting action without consensus, which is to say they are "protesting", protesting.
We are all gonna die. God damn it.
ReplyDeleteBetween the tea party and ows protests is their really an argument in favor of "public education".
ReplyDeleteWe are all gonna die. God damn it.
ReplyDeleteBut not before I laugh my ass off.
David Graeber is sometimes listed as the intellectual godfather of the OWS movement. (See here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber )
ReplyDeleteHere is his description of revolution and true democracy...
"For an anarchist, in fact, to try to create non-alienated experiences, true democracy, is an ethical imperative; only by making one's form of organization in the present at least a rough approximation of how a free society would actually operate, how everyone, someday, should be able to live, ..."
(From - ttp://www.zcommunications.org/anarchism-or-the-revolutionary-movement-of-the-twenty-first-century-by-david-graeber)
Better get used to chanting in unison. Maybe that's how we will have to speak in the OWS anarchist future.
This would be infantile if it wasn't so creepy.
ReplyDeleteThe kool aid comment is right on the mark.
I found the following post, trying to understand the origin of this behavior.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Parenting-Toddlers-1-5/My-3-year-old-repeats-almost-everything-I-say/show/707477
Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner.
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