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November 17, 2011

There is no 'Occupy Manifesto'.

There's just a bunch of people who are 'concerned' and 'aware' and 'making their voices heard'.
That and a toddler throwing sand makes you a parent. Billions of those, get in line. All of that free speech is going nowhere but into the microphones and videocameras of a few dozen media affiliates and ultimately into their editing rooms. None of it is coming out coherently as recommendations for appropriate regulatory reform. In short, the Occupiers are outgunned by real policy wonks. #OWS doesn't know where to find a real banking regulations expert and so have decided to use a sleeping bag instead. No matter how you slice it, 'We are the 99%' is not going to be the text of any of the real democratic politics that comes out of Washington to be enforced by the SEC. -- Encampment as Political Free Speech - Cobb

Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 17, 2011 11:12 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Ya know, if I understand "deconstruction", the basic meaning is that there is not meaning. I assume (I know), that it is what passes these days for what we called "lit crit" - literary criticism. So, if words are just spots against a contrasting background, (or vibrations in air), there is no point in trying to construct something meaningful.

Posted by: leelu at November 18, 2011 9:50 AM

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