Response to class discussion on Taibbi

During last Thursday's discussion, I think a few notable things took place.  The first notable thing is that I realized that I was not alone in not understanding the OWS movement.  I had come to class expecting to be blown out of the water by classmates with much greater knowledge of the topic than me.  I was under the impression that the article was written to a different audience than me, and that I would not be able to participate in any analyzing of this text, once our group had been meeting for about 2 minutes I realized I wasn't alone.  I thought that I had misunderstood the article, or that the main thesis had gone over my head.  But after meeting with my group, I realized that I was pretty much spot on, in not really knowing where the spot really was.  The second notable thing that happened in class had to do with the drawing/creating Taibbi's argument exercise.  This was something that I had not been asked to do before, and it was difficult to really wrap my head around what exactly that meant, to draw an argument.  This task seemed difficult for the entire class, which again was a relief, because it meant I'm not just slow.