OccupyWallStreet

[Mark Kohut]

Not a good sign for lasting, I will agree. Not like opposing a War or Wisconsin's union-busting....but, 
 
Wall Street is like a literary symbol here, maybe, like the event in the future the Trespassers have come back to 
warn about; like the baloon, like one of Gatsby's parties, like the Wizard of Oz............
 
I'm hoping it will grow like Topsy, whatever that phrase means, grow like kudzu only faster, grow like 
the Tea Party did...................................................
 
Quixote, wearing a spitoon for a helmet...........

From: "malignd at aol.com" <malignd at aol.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2011 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: OccupyWallStreet


I'm down there every day and, while it's amusing, your words are just the descriptors I would use: creaky, incompetent, and incoherent.  What a waste of energy.  No one has any but the vaguest clue what they're protesting against other than Wall Street, whatever that means.

<<I'm proud of the earnest organizers and participants in this occupation.  Eventually, they'll use their creaky, incompetent, consensual decision-making process to come up with a list of coherent demands. ... 
Is there anyone here who really think protesters here, in Spain, anywhere, even if their protest eventually fizzle to nothingness, have made the 
world a worse place?>>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 1, 2011 3:06 PM
>To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: OccupyWallStreet
>
>There is also this: http://act.credoaction.com/pages/ca_ag/?rc=fb_share4>
>Wake up! Act up!
>
>On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>> First, I offer up a little Patti Smith for the masses:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8C9U7pMvmc>>
>> Then, I'll offer up that at least one of my young acquaintances is
>> involved with Occupy California, an offspring, I guess of the Wall
>> Street movement. Here's their facebook page:
>> https://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/OccupyCaliforniaMaybe there are
>> other Occupy groups in your area. Don't just admire the splinter in
>> the thumb, rub salt in behind it.
>>
>> I have hope with these under 30s. There are a number of wide-awake
>> people
 among them. With the backing of a few of their elders, they are
>> becoming more outspoken and bolder as time goes on. I laud and support
>> them whole-heartedly, and I will soon be back in the world where I can
>> be a part of the action, so I can put my mug in the line, too. The
>> time for talk is nearly at an end. We have to act if we are going to
>> get our government involved in the change that must happen if we are
>> to regain (or establish) any dignity as a people. The Capitalist
>> Revolution of the 18th Century has run its course and its impetus must
>> be redirected. We can be a part of how that impetus gets directed. We
>> are not too old to act. So shut up, print your banners, and hit the
>> streets, and then speak up. Loudly.
>>
>> The protests of the 60s and 70s were organized to a point and then
>> more people joined. T RebelCapitalist
>>> As Movement Grows, Thousands In Boston Protest Against Bank Of America’s
>>> Greed http://j.mp/qvEPT8#occupytogether
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
>> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
>> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
>> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
>> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>>
>
>
> 
he same has been true through the Arab Spring. It
>> was a minority that showed up with full cognizance of the importance
>> of being there, but without that minority, the majority would never
>> have dared it.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Did BofA pick the wrong week to raise the price of crack? So to speak....
>>>
>>> @RebelCapitalist >-- 
>"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
>creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
>trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
>of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
>than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant 
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