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September 21, 2012, 01:50:56 AM |
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You know Watchwoord, I was going to trot out the teabonics slides and throw down, but instead I am going to see if we can back away from the vitriol and actually have a discussion. There are forces that would prefer that people remain divided. It is incumbent on each of us to resist this and find common ground where we can. Actually, I think a lot of folks are arriving at a synthesis of what were once mutually exclusive views. Sites like ZeroHedge, projects like the Rap News, there are a lot of examples these days.
More and more occupy types are figuring out about the Federal Reserve and the evils of debt based money. More and more tea party types are vocalizing that actually a kleptocratc oligarchy is no way to run a country.
Your objections to traditional protest, at least as you have articulated them here, seem to be largely aesthetic, and actually I share your distaste, but I also understand that people don't really know what else to do. Access to broadcast and print media is tightly gatekept, and internet media is so fractured that it is difficult to reach people there. I hear your demand for "actual content" and I agree. At the same time, a person should not have to be an artist or a gifted orator to have a voice in their governance.
My fear is that you are dismissing an entire population of possible, in fact increasingly likely, allies on aesthetic grounds alone. Both sides have certainly been guilty of this sort of divisive disdain. I think it would be very helpful to move beyond that and communicate about what we agree on.
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