Class Discussion's and the Expanding of Our Minds

To be honest this class discussion was much like the one we had in our class last semester. People who didn't know what the OWS protests were, were informed and those who did know got to speak their opinions on it. Although I think many of us knew what they were just not the whole logistics of it and what it was really all about. This is where Taibbi's article comes in. Not only did we see a view point of someone for the protests, who went into it not really knowing what it was all about. But we got some good information, helping those who had no idea what these people were exactly doing, understand just that. We talked about those reasons in class. Such as that the movement was not just about over throwing the government, or just about taking out big CEO's because people feel they have too much money or power. It's a lot more than that. It was a start of something that people have wanted for a while. People want change. They want so much more and so much better from our country and they are not getting it. This protest was a chance for anyone to come out and speak their minds about what they wanted to change about our society today. But then most of the conversation either led to the, "Well it couldn't/ wouldn't happen because..." which brought up the point of these protests not being organize in a way to get things done. But then being said, it set a starting point for future movements and people are defiantly going to build off from it. The conversation then led in other directions such as voting rights, and that if the younger generation were to vote it could sway certain votes, or like how some people believe the political parties should be different and most people sway to the middle. It went on and on. Our class has a lot to say about this subject, and a lot of other subjects and I love it. It opens our minds and helps us see others and their opinions in a different light that hopefully expands our own.