NP - New Speedway

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 15:59:56 CDT 2011


The world is more complicated and the use of ISM is a response to this
growth in complexity. The political landscape, for example, is far
more complex than your bianry of Wall Street and Big Government vs.
the rest of us.
There are some very good wall streeters. Some of them died in Iraq and
some in Afganistan and some are against the wars there and some are
not rich and some are very smart and some are fools and some are
idiots...and some are beautiful and some ugly ...like all other fields
and areas there are good and not so good.


That 99% vs 1% is an attempt to force everyone into one crowd and
march it to wall street. But, as the fine reports, including one from
our P-Lister, attest, the crowd is quite diverse and more fractured
and splintered than an effective and efficient protest needs to be.
This is owed, in part, to the complexity the ISMS try to name. But it
also owed to the fact that the 99% don't see a common foe in wall
street--whatever wall street is. What the 99% see is the darkness. We
see it and feel it. Itz got to give one way or another.

Always an optimist, I have never felt this kind of gloom. This
darkness, the shadow of 9-11 cast over this nation, is darkness ten
times dark. I expect unemployment to rise and the value of real
properties to drop. I expect more wars over there and more violence
here.

I got nothing left to say....my tounges a stone.



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