Unfortunately I missed out on blogging about this article the first time around so ill make sure to make sure I do the article justice in this blog. After reading Matt Taibbi’s article about his stance on the occupy wall street movement a lot of new perceptions where made on my part about OWS. Like Matt Taibbi I had mixed feelings about this whole occupy wall street movement when I saw what city hall park looked like a few months ago during Burlington's own OWS rally. To me it looked like a bunch of bumbs living in soggy tents preaching that wall street made them homeless. I was further discouraged when the news informed us that people were caught abusing drugs in those soggy tents. Despite the fact that Matt Taibbi and I had different experiences observing OWS rally we both came away with the same questions why bother? In the beginning of his article Matt Taibbi shares my thinking in that how could this movement be taken seriously by Citibank's and other Goldman Sachs of the world as Taibbi put it. Do a bunch of tenacious dirty bums think they can change the way our country operates. After reading the article I realized that along whit wanting change these people want freedom. Freedom from commercials, billboards, and salesmen. Taibbi sates that We see 10 million commercials a day. Our lives have become a presuite for material things at all costs. This intense disier Americans have to have nice things along with the allure of buying on credit has hurt a huge portion of our population. People have seem to have had enough and this is where OWS was born. This movement is about dropping out and tuning in to a group of people that shares your frustration. This movement wont last forever but for the time being I feel its a good thing for people to express their frustration and have some hope that change will come.
No comments:
Post a Comment