Writer's Block: Occupied
Jan. 5th, 2012 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I didn't camp out, but I did drop off a six dozen hard-boiled eggs to Occupy Boston.
Because the OWS movement is the spearhead of a movement that at least offers the possibility of returning our country to greatness by creating an actual free market, not twisted by the Wall Street/corporate/Washington collusion which creates an oligarchy which twists capitalism into a form that is damaging to the societal fabric, instead of being a force that brings better lives to people. Which is what capitalism can be, when powerful forces don't control and twist it.
I didn't camp out, but I did drop off a six dozen hard-boiled eggs to Occupy Boston.
Because the OWS movement is the spearhead of a movement that at least offers the possibility of returning our country to greatness by creating an actual free market, not twisted by the Wall Street/corporate/Washington collusion which creates an oligarchy which twists capitalism into a form that is damaging to the societal fabric, instead of being a force that brings better lives to people. Which is what capitalism can be, when powerful forces don't control and twist it.
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Date: 2012-01-05 08:28 pm (UTC)I want to take your last paragraph and paste it in comments to all of the people who said nasty things about OWS.
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Date: 2012-01-05 08:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-06 01:15 pm (UTC)That's an interesting theory... I'd like to see the evidence.
(I am, by the way, more in support of OWS than not... it's just that I've never heard the relationship between free markets and current Washington policy put in quite that way, and it runs counter to my expectations)
Kiralee
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Date: 2012-01-09 04:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-09 05:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-10 01:01 pm (UTC)Kiralee
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Date: 2012-01-10 01:15 pm (UTC)Since that time, people seem to have dropped out the first half of that concept.
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Date: 2012-01-10 01:33 pm (UTC)That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but being pedantic, I'd prefer something more precise, although that often leaves me trying to invent new language for the specific concepts I want to articulate...
... in this case, that might be a good idea, but I think I'd want to do some fact checking with an economist first.
Kiralee