OWS After Class Discussion

After talking about Matt Taibbi's article about OWS, my opinion hasn't changed very much.  The only thing that has changed is my concern about my future financially and that I am aware of some of the reasons why OWS is happening.  Taibbi directed his article to those who are struggling and I know that in the future, I will be struggling with student loans and trying to start a future that includes a house in the real world.  However, I am still very confused at the entire point of OWS; I don't see any good that has come out of OWS since it started.  I had only briefly heard about OWS last semester.  But no one was really able to explain to me what it was, because they themselves didn't know what OWS really was.  So I quickly dismissed OWS and thought nothing more about it.  It was a topic that wasn't driven by purpose, in my opinion and that's why I didn't find it anything important or interesting.  The only think I knew before reading this article is that it was a protest.  I thought the point of a protest was to create change in the end.  Also, I feel that there is a specific cause of a protest and I think most people are just jumping on the bandwagon when it comes to OWS and not for any specific purpose per se.  People can't say that they want change and not explain what changes they want and that's what I feel is going on with OWS, people aren't being specific and voicing their opinions about what changes they want made.  They may think that by protesting and getting others to join in, they will get what they want.  But in reality, change is going to take a while and I don't think they understand that.  If many citizens, like me, don't understand the purpose and what changes these protesters are asking for, then the people with the power aren't going to know what changes are in demand.  How is there going to be any change if no one knows that changes are wanted and needed? People are going to have to come up with a better way to voice their opinions of what they want changed, because so far, to me, this protest hasn't sparked the route of change yet.