More on Occupy Wall Street - what is hapening?

"what sympathy are the Occupy Wall Street folks going to get, if they start taking over buildings in order to provide shelter and work for themselves?"

Dear friends,

Recently, I questioned the effectiveness of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, in bringing change to our country.

Ultimately, in order for a group to sustain themselves, they have to acquire a means to produce their material means of survival. In other words, there's more to building community than people getting together and being nice to each other. Moreover, many of these people are basically destitute. Consequently, alien marauders can then move in and take advantage. That's what happened to African Americans after we fought with guns and freed ourselves during the North American Civil War or what's been called the First War of Black Liberation. (see Lloyd Hogan's Principles of Black Political Economy)

Instead of using such great energy to protest (and freeload), folks should combine to, for example, take over abandoned factory buildings (structures like that are abundant in this country), and organize both housing and business facilities. There are many carpenters, plumbers, and electricians who would surely help them. There may even be some artisans and others among them.

Please remember that the people themselves are the economy. That is, human beings both make and consume the products of their combined labor. It (the aforesaid economy) is not some mystical, anthropomorphic phenomenon that grows and recesses. That's a silly idea that is the kind of blather constantly spouted by North American so-called journalists and equally unprincipled college professors who defer any notion of integrity in their work, in order to keep their jobs.

So here another point is raised. That is, the type of "jobs", as it were, at which North Americans are most often employed, just as they are for the so-called journalists and professors just mentioned, are merely exercises in human acquiescence to superior authority. Worse yet, in order to endure the charade, folks alienate, not only themselves from their work, but themselves from themselves and their fellow workers. Ouch!

Additionally, it is here where the escape from all of the misery mentioned above, that is, drugs, sex, religion, you name it, take firm hold. People need to forget about themselves and life in general. This running from one's self is also essential, because being human is a very lonesome experience. After all, one can sleep beside another person for any number of years. Still, you are both lonely. After all, no one can eat for you or go to the bathroom for you. Of course, this escapism is very convenient and profitable for those who control the market that results from the products and services the aforementioned workers produce.

Hence, finding union with others is a way to alleviate some of the pain of lonesomeness. However, one has to be careful of the religious marauders. They prey on such folks. And so, the Occupy Wall Street Movement provides some positive union, but how long will it last, unless those folks establish plans for long term survival that doesn't require begging? And in an environment where poor people, like Tea Partyers, complain about the government wanting to tax the rich more, while, simultaneously, we see the US government, with its "Black" president, raiding Africa and the Middle East, claiming to be "liberators", what sympathy are the Occupy Wall Street folks going to get, if they start taking over buildings in order to provide shelter and work for themselves? That's what's been happening everywhere else. Will our government "help" Americans. as they did for the Egyptians and Libyans?

"Dare to struggle - dare to win" - Fredrick Douglass

G. Djata Bumpus