The classes being, roughly, the university hipsters and the ghetto. And according to the ghetto people, the hipsters made the decisions for everyone else despite only being 15% of the movement. So I guess they’ve hit feudalism on their grand recapitulation of the arc of history. Hopefully they can speed up and re-invent the toilet by, say, Monday.
There’s so much good in this video that it’s hard to know what to highlight. The Iwo Jima-as-Porta-Potty monument is genius. The park ghetto man who notices that the elites come to the downtrodden when dirty work needs doing is priceless. He is the rough man who stands ready to do violence on behalf of the trust fund hippie sipping espresso in Zuccotti’s uptown, or something. The man at the end who wants to abolish private property but keep everyone else’s grubby paws off his personal property — his iPad — is so good I watched it twice.
It looks like the occupiers have lost Jon Stewart. That’s like losing Cronkite during Vietnam.
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
My bad. I thought we were headed towards “1984″ and it was “Animal Farm” all along.
Perfect quote. Thank you.
The evil and the stupid. Like Stalin and his useful idiots.
Idiot fringies (TM) support the very people who would enslave them. The hipsters are the very example of the liberal idiots, the would-be Stalins. They are the self-appointed, upper crust among this motley rabble. In 20 years, these little Stalins will be plaguing us in our political and education systems. And the fringies will still be nuts.
That reporter is terrific. “You’re blowing up like a balloon of political correctness… don’t you just want to let some of it out?” and “Does the drum group know we’re meeting here?”
But the tape is a strikingly clear example that these people don’t object to elitism per se… they object to elitism based on wealth. They’re completely in favor of elitism based on intellect.
And that always turns out so well, doesn’t it? Because rich people just want to be rich- but intellectual elitists know what’s best for us. Guess which type scares me more.
That idiot with the iPad summed up OWS perfectly: “I’m against private property, I’m not against personal property.”
I couldn’t help it, I had to laugh.
That WAS pretty funny, if a bit convoluted in its logic. Here’s what I think he means:
Private property= Other People’s stuff.
Personal property= My stuff
Is that about right?
You hit the nail right on the head!
Bottom line – Hypocrisy!
If Occupy has lost Stewart and he has a HUGE Leftist fan base…
Stewart has followers? Do you mean his TV audience? He’s not really a leader, just a TV announcer who ad libs too much.
Edwin Hall III was in the last second or two of the video – did anyone recognize him?
From yesterday’s Chronicle of Higher Education:
November 16, 2011
Protesters Plan a National ‘Student-Debt Refusal’ Campaign
By Eric Hoover
Occupy Wall Street protesters are poised to announce a national “student-debt refusal” campaign that would begin next week, says a prominent scholar within the movement.
On Wednesday night, Andrew Ross, a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, said members of an Occupy Wall Street working group were finalizing drafts of three “pledges” related to student debt, including a debtors’ pledge, whose signers would refuse to make payments on their loans after one million signatures have been collected.
The other pledges are one for faculty members who support those who refuse to pay, and another for nondebtors, including parents and sympathizers, who also want to show their support.
The pledges, Mr. Ross said, are to be based on four beliefs: that student loans should be interest-free; that tuition at all public institutions should be federally funded; that private and for-profit colleges should open their financial records to the public; and that students’ “debt burden” should be written off.
Mr. Ross, an expert in academic-labor issues, is a member of Occupy Wall Street’s Education and Empowerment working group. On Wednesday, he described how his personal interest in student-debt issues had developed.
“Like many faculty, I see a lot of suffering and humiliation among students in taking on this debt,” Mr. Ross said. “There was the recognition that my own salary is debt-financed. … There’s an element of complicity. It’s an incredible burden for faculty to bear.”
The campaign is scheduled to begin with an event at Zuccotti Park, in New York, on Monday afternoon, followed by a protest at the City University of New York’s Baruch College.
To the idiot with a Ph.D. in cultural mush:
Loans are CONTRACTS entered into FREELY. No one is forcing anyone to go into debt. Your bratty little students were too stupid to understand a loan is not free money. And you’re equally stupid to think their choices are your fault.
Suze Orman would slap you silly for your epic financial ignorance.
We could always go to the German model and only 10% of high school students continue on to college. Also, at some point in middle school, they determine whether you will be in a high school that prepares you for college or not. I’m guessing they don’t know any of that.
Occupy OWS!
“Some animals are more equal than others”
I know this is somewhat off topic, but George Orwell literally scares the crap out of me. He had the human “beast” nailed to the nth degree.
Back on topic. But what scares me more is that there are still people out there who are completely ignorant of his insights. Worse still, there are people out there who think they know better and those insights don’t apply to them.
The only out come of communism is Animal Farm. End of story. Case closed. But there persist people who think they can fix it. The level of denial is freakin epic.
So, who needs a horror show when we got real life, right?
– Sam Bee was funny, but then the “skit” wrote itself. You can’t make this stuff up.