Thursday, February 16, 2012

OWS; They need to Change, to Make a Change

Coming into this article I already knew quite a bit about Occupy Wall Street. From our previous discussion in our previous Rhetoric class and then my own research I basically came up with what Matt Taibbi hit upon through out his article. That he didn't know what it was all about, but then realized that it was a coming together of different people to ban together to get across how unhappy they/ we all are with our country. It's not just about big banks and corporate bosses, its about much bigger and deeper than just that. However in my opinion, as was said in Taibbi's last paragraph, they is no clear direction in these protests. For at the time, when the protest was still new, that was fine. They we're still making headlines, world wide. They were being known about and they're ideas of things like "Fuck This Shit", meaning all the things people think is bullshit in our society were being heard. However nothing was really being done. And now, with it being almost a year its been since this movement has started, still nothing has been done or truly acted upon. I feel if they wanted things to get done, or changed, they need to change the way to go about it. They need to get a leader, narrow done what it is they are really fighting for and start to organize. However, going with that, I think it may be too late for that first movement, I feel now, a new movement with the same values and goals can look back on OWS and work off from it. A new group can revise it and make it better. OWS has set a starting point, now we just need someone to come along and work it up to a true revolution they were looking for in the first place.

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