What Occupy do did did on Wall Street bent over backwards in the hurricane bre

[David Morris]

My last post made your Sandy-Katrina post a stark reality face-slap.
 Deniers are fading. Progressivism is on its initial rebirth.

On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, wrote:

> During the occupation of Zuccotti Park, my son- late twenties, very
> political in an academic sense- would frequently day trip into the
> city and report back on the goings on there. I'd never seen him
> more exhilirated, and he is by no means radical. He was
> impressed by the sense of community and cooperation, and
> of course, his cohort was/is getting decimated by the financial
> collapse of 2008, in the same way that my cohort was decimated
> by the collapse of post-WWII American Idealism in the sixties.
>
> He was energized. The occupation was idealistic but it was
> responsible, and effectively run. People were inspired. They willing
> cooperated, shared resources and took care of eachother.
> Problems were identified and solved. It was a very powerful
> convergence of idealism, youthful exuberance and the new
> medium(s) of connectivity.
>
> And his is the connected generation. His chums from high school
> are never more than a click away. Zuccotti was as much about
> the new social connections that are now possible, as it was about
> the 99%, income inequality and corporate malfeasance.
>
> When we went off to college in the 60's, we often lost touch with
> each other until semester break, and often forever. Our rebellion
> was also media driven, but by comparison, the media we shared
> was primitive, cumbersome and hierarchical. Zuccotti, and the
> OWS phenomenon in general, was and continues to be, an
> occupation of the new virtual space. Zuccotti was a physical
> embodiment of this new socialized media. Everyone connects.
>
> New paradigms of being do not come into the world without a
> struggle. They are often covered in blood and screaming for
> oxygen. When I gently confronted my son's idealistic enthusiasm,
> it became clear that the spirit of Zuccotti was touching something
> very deep in him and in those directly involved. Most of my devil's
> advocacy in these father/son confrontations was based on my
> own experiences with the brutal powers we had challenged  30
> or 40 years ago. From my perspective, mostly gleaned from MSM,
> Zuccotti had a good deal of The People's Republic of Rock&
> Roll about it. It was also clear that despite an initial pretense of
> tolerance, Mayor Bloomberg was annoyed and would soon
> follow the example of various other cities and under the cover
> of darkness, with press excluded, bulldoze Zuccotti into history.
>
> But Hurricane Sandy has changed things, especially coming
> on the heals of Katrina, Irene and the growing undeniability of
> global climate change. The skill set, cooperation, idealism and
> energy embodied by Zuccotti Park and OWS seem so much more
> "on the money" than the feckless fat cat bastards that would
> have us believe that greed is enough, or that the market will
> take of itself.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com <javascript:;>>
> To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com <javascript:;>>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:;>>
> Sent: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 8:41 am
> Subject: Re: What Occupy do did did on Wall Street bent over backwards
> in the hurricane breeze
>
>
> Occupy Paranioa....LOVE IT
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Nov 24, 2012, at 6:50 AM, bandwraith at aol.com <javascript:;> wrote:
>
> > Nicely articulated, Sir Joseph, and with o'Trace of genius. And all
> > over the world this mornin' everything is, to paraphrase Crocker
> > Fenway, in it's proper place: the rich and the poor faux, the have
> > and the have nots. Me thinks it's time to rehabilitate the likes of
> > Inherent Vice. The latest climate surprises suggest that the planet
> > may yet reclaim its beaches, break up the pavement and send the
> > paveroverers back to Lemuria, unless "They" figure a way to turn a
> > profit on climate change, as "They" do everything else. "They"
> > definitely belonging in quotes, here.
> >
> > If "Occupying" is dwelling in a specific spot at a specific time, then
> > it's also a state of mind. Perhaps it's time to take a cue from the
> > narrator of GR and learn how to Occupy Paranoia- to view the world
> > and its history from what the powers that be would insist is a
> > "paranoid perspective," as opposed to Their "channeled view," with
> > everything all prefab'd and laid out conveniently to coincide with the
> > status quo- everything in its proper place and pre-connected.
> >
> > It's like Tariq in Doc's office trying to explain how his homeland has
> > become a palimpsest- a territory once occupied by his family and
> > friends now reduced to barely recognized rubble- only to be
> > re-inscribed with the domiciles of Channel View Estates, a creation
> > of Mickey Wolfmann. That would be the evil Mickey of ass and real
> > estate grabbing fame, as opposed to the more apologetic,
> > kibbutznik-like Mickey, of Arrepentimiento. Tariq is very paranoid in
> > the conventional sense, and well he should be, for trying to recoup
> > monies laid out for weapons in a deal brokered on the basis of his
> > particular "gift." That could also be an authorial in-joke concerning
> > methods adopted for IV, and the author's paranoia about using
> > them, at least when he occupied that same area back in the 60's.
> >
> > Using Tariq's predicament as an example of how paranoia might
> > enhance one's vision- the channeled view would have Mickey as
> > just another economic opportunist, following the market, who falls
> > victim to some hippie-promoted acid and needs a little rehab.
> > From the paranoid pov, however, the possibility of a different
> > interpretation arises: How can Mickey create a situation in which
> > he's able to displace the locally rooted occupiers of their land for
> > his own developement schemes, while simultaneously getting
> > paid for acting like he is sorry about it? Or better, how can he get
> > subsidized for turning the indigenous into the indigent- a threat to
> > the property values of civilized channel viewers everywhere- while
> > simultaneously providing new excuses for police enhancement to
> > keep them in check? The paranoid view provides answers to its
> > own questions, by asking the right ones.
> >
> > btw, you ain't never gonna save the world eatin' beef, : )
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net <javascript:;>>
> > To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:;>>
> > Sent: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 8:54 am
> > Subject: What Occupy do did did on Wall Street bent over backwards in
> > the hurricane breeze
> >
> >
> > The malign and  and less malign and not some line where the water rose
> > and the
> > bank notes melted down in the doo do vault. Down in the voodoo salt
> and
> > the oily
> > soily seasmell. Back in 2012 in the first wave when the wall street
> > machine was
> > stlll holding the line, and lining the vault with fresh doo doo notes
> > in the
> > days of the empire. I hurt it then when the umpire state called strike
> > one. I
> > heard the hiss of the acid ocean eating under the bed under the
> bedrock
> > and the
> > occupation came rolling like waves under the bed into their dreams
> like
> > lions on
> > the prowl, likes wolves on the howl, like poison turkeys floating up
> > the Hudson,
> > like radio waves tuned to trouble.
> >
> > "There's a sign out on the doorpost, sayin this land is condemned, all
> > the way
> > from New Orleans Up to Jerusalem"
> >
> > Dylan shmilan  let's have some killin, Happy hanukah Gaza. Cuz all the
> > smart
> > guys know the more poison ya got the safer you glow, An baby we got
> > mountains of
> > it. We'll never run out.  We got prisons the size of countries to keep
> > em from
> > the holy poison we own. We a solid as a wall.
> >
> > "There's a kind of flush, all over the world tonight, all over the
> > world you can
> > hear the sound of sewers too full." The Turdles perform live and dead
> > tonight on
> > that street that ,  no matter where you are, is near you:
> >
> > Wall Street. Wall Street. Wall Street. Wall Street. Wall Street. Wall
> > Street.
> > Wall Street.
> > Wall Street. Wall Street. Wall Street. Wall Street. Wall Street. Wall
> > Street.
> > Wall Street.
> >
> > Solid. Just Solid.  Some solid solids. Some soiled solids with
> > unstoppable
> > liquidity.  Serious liquid solids sold and sought and seriously solid.
> >
> > Wall Street.  Where the solid shit shines with unstoppable liquidity.
> > No
> > Occupants allowed.  We don't want them soiling our shiny shit. We are
> > unoccupied. Completely and fully unoccupied in every serious and solid
> > sense of
> > unstoppable liquidity.  We own the idea of solid.  We own the zeroes
> > piled like
> > mountains. The zeroes that are the solid steel bars that line the
> > malign and
> > hold the prisons that we make with our endless liquidity.
> >
> > Back in the days before the big waves came
> >
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