TheStyle Logo
  • Home
  • About
  • book reviews
  • life
  • music
  • thinking out loud
  • travel
Occupy Wall Street
  • thinking out loud
Nov04

Occupy Wall Street

posted by Jamie

Yet even with such unfocused goals, the OWS Movement (reportedly) has the support of the majority of Americans. I think that in the minds of many Americans, OWS has become representative of every evil that we associate with crooked bankers and corrupt politicians. Even more so, I think that somehow, the movement is the embodiment of the overwhelming vulnerability and powerlessness that Americans are feeling today for countless different reasons. Perhaps the success of OWS is BECAUSE of the fact that it has not been able to clearly state its goals. This allows an otherwise inchoate movement to take on the form of every ill and evil that each American senses in a nation that has begun to seem like a hostile environment since 2007.

Subscribe

It’s Us!

We met in high school's academic decathlon (yes, we're total nerds!), and then went on to study English together at UC Berkeley. In 2004, a year after graduation, we got hitched, and soon afterward, Matt earned his MA in teaching. For years . . .
(read more)

Archives

  • December 2012
  • September 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011

© Copyright Matt & Jamie Gough (Montefu) 2011 | Website Designed by Simple Site Guru Based on Elegant Theme