NP - What Occupy Did to 2012, What It Will Do to 2013

[malignd at aol.com]

Jesus.  Calm down.  I work on Wall Street, which is, as well as a loose term for the financial district and investment business and world generally, is also a street in Manhattan, the one on which my firm has its address.  So I don't think I AM WS, as you exclaim in capital letters.  


I was generally sympathetic to the intent of OWS, but I think the idea of a more or less leaderless movement failed them.  Energy and spirit aplenty, but it was left to its audience and enemies to decipher a coherent message.


And what is going on now is a shambles.  And I don't think of them now as on my lawn.  It's just that OWS has become a vaguely political version of skid row.  


And "loathing" was not a description of my response, but there is plenty of it directed at them.  I do find them pitiable and pitiful.



-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: malignd <malignd at aol.com>; pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, Nov 18, 2012 10:45 pm
Subject: Re: NP - What Occupy Did to 2012, What It Will Do to 2013


Your dog is an old cur. You ARE WS by your own admission! Not very subtle, bub.
Your message sounds old-mannish, like "Get off my lawn" -ish. 



On Nov 11, 2012, at 12:53 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:






I have no dog in this fight, but am skeptical about how much of an impact OWS had on the election or on anything else.  I work on WS every day and have watched and wondered and never was able to reach a conclusion.  Their energy a year ago was impressive and moving, their message garbled and often incoherent.  Certainly they garnered media attention, but that is difficult to translate into actual achievement.


The most recent incarnation is an embarrassment -- an exhausted skid row of the vagrant and seemingly brain dead and hapless, camped out, filthy and exhausted, in front of Trinity Church to no effect other than to engender, alternatively, pity and loathing.  Hard to see them having any influence on anything in 2013.





 

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