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Coupled with the idea that if some money is good, more is better, we find ourselves in the pickle we face today.īut what other attitudes besides greed have led us to this dysfunctional system and broken planet? Aggression. This is why we occupy.Īnd yet, undertaking something as massive as creating a whole new culture requires a hard look at the underlying operating system-in our case, the assumption that the power of money trumps every other consideration. At the same time, our government is now owned by multinational corporations and financial conglomerates.
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The honest competition of capitalism has been usurped by corporatism, where a small handful of corporations control every sector of modern culture. The old system was nominally called ‘capitalism’ and ‘a representative democracy,’ but both have been corrupted by the effects of money, because in the old system, money equals power. One of the great challenges in creating a new way of life for humanity is determining the ground rules, deciding on the new cultural operating system. I doubt Palestinians have much love for the term Occupiers, and there are a host of other nations and peoples that have been occupied by the American Empire. Just so, leadership is not the problem, BAD leadership is.Īnd while hesitant to call ourselves leaders, we happily identify ourselves as ‘Occupiers’ despite the obviously loaded nature of that term. It’s akin to Ronald Reagan demonizing ‘government’ as being not the solution, but the problem itself, while common sense suggests government is not the problem-it’s required to manage civil society- but BAD government is the problem.
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But demonizing the word ‘leader’ as Occupy has done creates an awkward dynamic, as this movement is full of leaders. This movement/revolution was immediately announced as being ‘leaderless,’ a natural reaction to what political and financial ‘leaders’ have done to usurp citizen through the corruption of our legislatures and congress. It’s an apt metaphor for where we are with Occupy these days.īut first, a couple of curiosities.
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The idea is that if you put new wine into a used skin, the skin will burst as the new wine ferments, having already been stretched once from its first use. There is a famous biblical parable where Jesus speaks of his new way of thinking as something that cannot be contained in the existing Jewish culture.