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true story: ~2004 (I think) was sitting in Bryant Park (NYC) tap tapping away on the laptop. (I like coding in fresh air ;) And this young woman and a man with camera and microphone were going around, apparently interviewing people. So I get my turn too and she asked me: "if you were running for office, what would be your campaign slogan?". I didn't miss a beat and immediately said "99% of us have 100% in common." (Buddy of mine and I had been talking about our general condition (here and globally) on and off for a while now ..)
I wish I could buy into OWS, but fundamentally, I found the focus on "wall street" as entirely misdirected. It has dawned on me (albeit belatedly in a god, I'm stupid way) that all the focus on mythologizing "the powers that be" may have been psycholinguistic programming all along. The very strong subliminal message of "OWS" is that "we the people" are powerless and that our governmental institutions are illegitimate: why else would you appeal to wall street for redress? But are we, really? If that were the case, "wall street" would not insist on "occupying" important governmental seats e.g. Tim Geithner ...