NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: Rage Against … Whatever
“What do we want?”
“We’re not sure!”
“When do we want it?”
“Now!”
Occupy Wall Street, which The New York Times describes as “a noble but fractured and airy movement of rightly frustrated young people,” have been converging on Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, all last week to press their demands for a cause that is “impossible to decipher”:
The group was clamoring for nothing in particular to happen right away – not the implementation of the Buffett rule or the increased regulation of the financial industry. Some didn’t think government action was the answer because the rich, they believed, would just find new ways to subvert the system.
“I’m not for interference,” Anna Katheryn Sluka, of western Michigan, told me. “I hope this all gets people who have a lot to think: ‘I’m not going to go to Barcelona for three weeks. I’m going to sponsor a small town in need.’ ”
Some said they were fighting the legal doctrine of corporate personhood; others, not fully understanding what that meant, believed it meant corporations paid no taxes whatsoever. Others came to voice concerns about the death penalty, the drug war, the environment.
“I want to get rid of the combustion engine,” John McKibben, an activist from Vermont, declared as his primary ambition. …
One day, a trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Adam Sarzen, a decade or so older than many of the protesters, came to Zuccotti Park seemingly just to shake his head. “Look at these kids, sitting here with their Apple computers,” he said. “Apple, one of the biggest monopolies in the world. It trades at $400 a share. Do they even know that?”
By the looks of it, they don’t know much of anything. But one protester knew exactly what he wanted. Red Eye‘s Bill Schulz demands that The Man “Bring Back Growing Pains!”. Schulz described the experience as “the smell of patchouli, body odor, and urine,” reports Mediaite:
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