Keep seeing this misunderstanding. The Occupy movement isn’t anti-corporation or anti-capitalism. It’s anti plutocracy. An attempt to wrestle the institution of government back from just the few with the means to buy it. It all comes down to campaign finance reform, seems to me – the only remedy I can think of to get politicians to (maybe) answer to the people they represent and not to whoever will pay for their campaigns (in exchange for legislation that favors them at the expense of the rest of us). The current system leads to disastrous results for everyone… as we keep not learning.

Taken at Boyle Park

Taken at Boyle Park

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A quote attributed to Pixar.
Good one.

Timely.

http://open.spotify.com/track/7vdV7NbzScFOWYWBYE4llh

I’m a little worried this is what Earth looks like to an alien civilization with a longer sense of time than ours. Ah… hey… look at all that activity… a few bursts here and there… and – yup – there they go…

The Occupy movement isn’t anti Wall Street or anti corporation. That’s a misconception. Corporations aren’t the problem exactly. Corporations are organized to further their own interests. It’s more or less all they can do. Capitalism works, to be sure. And people get rich. It’s fine. But our government should be organized to take a longer and broader view and further the common interests of everyone. When only corporate interests drive the government – when our politicians don’t really work for us, but for big campaign donations – when the dwindling middle class and poor are stuck with Wall Street’s gambling debt – then our democracy is broken (and so is capitalism, incidentally). Hard to see how we wrestle it back exactly, but I’m glad for the growing recognition that we’ve got work to do.

Our politicians have been bought. Our government is broken.
Go, democracy.

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