Occupy Wall Street is looking to resurrect itself by calling for activists to pledge to a demonstration and sit-in in spring. I have always been a keen supporter of the movement. I joined two Wall St local groups and an offshoot work group of one of them and the movement is dear to my heart. However, I think it’s futile this idea of demonstrating. It merely keeps us in the position of hamsters on the wheel. As long as we supplicate anyone or any entity, we are essentially saying that we need permission. Why demonstrate? Isn’t it to ask something of our government? But we have seen where that got us – nowhere. More demonstrating is just spinning our wheels.
What we need is to direct our energies in something that has lasting impact such as designing and building a new system that lives up to the ideals we share as human beings. We need to give people of goodwill a way of transacting in a trustworthy environment. Why should we be bound to only use Federal Reserve currency? That’s not freedom.
Right now the greedy get all the breaks and the entire system is designed to reward this characteristic and that has consequences. It forces even the best of us to be greedy too even if we’re not like that. The entire money system is tainted by this factor so let’s design a new system. The Occupy movement needs to step up to the next phase and get out of this silly “demonstrating to our masters” kind of mentality. We have no masters. We only have each other.
And amongst us are undervalued skills like being able to grow food ourselves, educate each other and cure diseases and ill health oursleves and do it in ways that don’t have bad side effects. We possess a plethora of other skills, not to mention our energy, and we have a profusion of knowledge and these all are in reality, our true wealth. We need to share these skills. And while we’re at it, share everything else too like our lawn mowers and our possessions. We need to move from isolation to unification.
The greed system relies on our isolation because that’s what provides more profit. But we are social creatures. Why aren’t we designing a new “economic” system, where we decide first, what kind of a world we want to actually live in, and second, how to arrange it so that our transactions are most enjoyable, fair and beautiful?
~ Denise Ward
An awareness of the necessity
I agree with your sentiment. However, the problem with our 7.3 billion social creatures is that our interests are hugely diversified, and beyond repair. There can never be a oneness in the world because most people interpret their agreement patterns based on their individual needs and desires, first, and then what might be right for humanity, second.
Even on a holiday day like today, thankfulness is a blur that’s blitzed by social creatures uniting in a demonstration for the land of plenty while off in corners sit the lonely and hungry.
But what you raise is an awareness of the necessity of somehow getting our act together that contributes to living in a “most enjoyable, fair and beautiful” way.