The only way to end corporate rule is through community subsistence and abandonment of industrial streams. We need to be free to pursue the right to choose to live off the land instead of having only the option of working for money. Money is for gold and other such extravagances, not the basic requirements for life. Until we accept and act upon this we will remain a class of disorganized slaves trying to change illusions by patronizing the problem.
We have come to this point because we participated in this contrived economy and became over-sophistocated. I don't suggest living in caves any more than I support widening roads or Mountain Top Removal. Progress at this point though is abandoning the sinking ship, not demanding control of the helm or say in which way we steer.
The economy is dead. We need more fresh water; more sustainable agriculture/permiculture so we can out live technology, not more opportunity be slaves to it's industry.
I respect this movement, if i didn't I wouldn't be contemplating its chances of fruition, much less paying any attention to it. However it is aimed in the wrong direction. I don't think you can call it "organic self-organizing" either for we are simply victims of circumstance. Many of these people have no choice or simply have nothing better to do. nonviolence is not a 9-5 occupation nor is it an weekend affair. Many only attend these protests on days off from work or school. It is good that they attend but there is more to a movement than getting noticed. This may be critical and harsh, but we must see things for what they are or we will continue to be victims. Those who live there, they misunderstand the dynamics of the dominating system. At some point they will have to turn on the "no spokes person" nobodies in charge mantra for they will be invited to speak to the gov't as a group of representatives (see Power Shift 2011).
Many are inspired by the masses that grow but a social movement needs directed at the roots of the multitude of issues; Gandhi marched for salt and King called for civil rights. Unless this movement simply wants to become bourgeoisie, it must break free from the ideology it stand opposed to. I say this only to emphasize the need to work towards something in an open and deliberate fashion, whether that be anarchy or other wise. What do I mean by this? Let us look at power shift 2011.
With out going into too many details, power shift was a event where young people where trained how to organize in a weekend convention. It focused on direct action and used the term nonviolence as if it was as simple as choosing which shirt to put on in the morining. The short of it is this: a handful of the organizers were invited to the white house. At that point they became a representative democracy as there was no consensus work done ad it was the voices of those who went to the white house that was heard what is the point? That is how this system works. At some point it was come to this- a handful of Occupy organizers will be asked to attend a high power meeting and in an instant everything they say they are, or, are not, will be erased.
If you want to start a social movement you must understand in theory, the fundamental objective of the art of conflict: deception. Ideological nonviolence of course does not deceive, but it does not ignore the governing dynamics of the situation it sets out to affect.
Open-mindedness does not mean everything is acceptable, much to the contrary. It is a honing of perception and an quickening of resolve. How many revolutions need we see in our history before we explore a different way? When will we allow for social evolution? This means on an ideological level for if our ideas are rooted in this structure the results of our efforts will simply be more of the same.
I understand, in theory at least, the nature of social control and the art of conflict: Deception. And to be clear, this is a movement about "what is right". when the White House opens to My respect is for this, it always has been. I include The Rivers and The Mountains and the myriad Life into this consideration. Corporations will never change this, it is not what they are designed to do.
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