Just Simply Inconvenient
Who might have imagined when it all began that the OWS contingent - camping out to send their message of indignation and aggrievement over the unequal share of wealth growing more acute by the day - would have to face an adversary they could not possibly spar with. The environment has been performing some fairly peculiar stunts in the last several years. Among which has been phenomenal weather, let alone cataclysmic upheavals on the Earth's crust.
Who might have imagined that before the end of the usually stolid month of October a weather event of the like that hadn't been seen in almost one-and-a-half centuries would impact on parts of North America? Leaving millions of people wondering what on Earth is going on, as they struggle to get along at this time of year without electricity in the aftermath of an odd storm system that dumped inches of now and downed power lines from parts of the U.S. to Canada.
In New York City where the Occupy Wall Street social phenomenon had its birth, those camping out in tents without the comfort of those confiscated generators and fuel are facing a most uncomfortable sit-in (tent-in). Authorities would dearly like them to leave, their message having been received, but the protest occupiers would prefer to stay, to remain a living thorn in the side of Wall Streeters.
Of course they now have their counterpart 'occupy' groups all over the world. Mostly young people, many unemployed, but all smarting at the unfairness of a world that divides the have-nots from the have-much, with those that have far too much simply accelerating their wealth. At a time of high unemployment and economic uncertainty world-wide, that message has gained wide sympathy.
Peaceful protests, assembly, speech and gatherings such as the OWS are permissible in societies that guarantee their citizens those rights. But the protests are beginning to resemble a weeping sore that refuses to heal; interesting at first, annoying as hell finally, with the majority of people not involved in the protests feeling they should disperse, message delivered.
Delivered perhaps, but nothing of any substance achieved. Other than to discommode themselves and in the doing destroy public property and propriety with the heedlessness of their chosen priorities, righteous and just but just simply inconvenient.
Who might have imagined that before the end of the usually stolid month of October a weather event of the like that hadn't been seen in almost one-and-a-half centuries would impact on parts of North America? Leaving millions of people wondering what on Earth is going on, as they struggle to get along at this time of year without electricity in the aftermath of an odd storm system that dumped inches of now and downed power lines from parts of the U.S. to Canada.
In New York City where the Occupy Wall Street social phenomenon had its birth, those camping out in tents without the comfort of those confiscated generators and fuel are facing a most uncomfortable sit-in (tent-in). Authorities would dearly like them to leave, their message having been received, but the protest occupiers would prefer to stay, to remain a living thorn in the side of Wall Streeters.
Of course they now have their counterpart 'occupy' groups all over the world. Mostly young people, many unemployed, but all smarting at the unfairness of a world that divides the have-nots from the have-much, with those that have far too much simply accelerating their wealth. At a time of high unemployment and economic uncertainty world-wide, that message has gained wide sympathy.
Peaceful protests, assembly, speech and gatherings such as the OWS are permissible in societies that guarantee their citizens those rights. But the protests are beginning to resemble a weeping sore that refuses to heal; interesting at first, annoying as hell finally, with the majority of people not involved in the protests feeling they should disperse, message delivered.
Delivered perhaps, but nothing of any substance achieved. Other than to discommode themselves and in the doing destroy public property and propriety with the heedlessness of their chosen priorities, righteous and just but just simply inconvenient.
Labels: Economy, Human Relations, Social-Cultural Deviations
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