Protesters upset me.
Standing around with their cheeky signs. Where do they get off having so much free time?
If I had two hours to kill, I wouldn't stand around. Holding a sign.
I've read lots of signs, held by lots of Losers, throughout my life. None of them ever altered my position, outlook, or philosophy.
Books do that. Conversations do that.
I hereby openly mock anyone who has wasted their time protesting anything. By standing around and holding a sign.
If you really feel strongly about a cause, any cause whatsoever, and you have concluded that standing around holding a sign is the best way to help that cause, I would argue that you need to do more research.
Make good use of your Time. It's fleeting, and finite.
And if you don't, I will steal it from you, and use it to make music, to sleep, or to have a quiet dinner date with my soulmate. I wish I had time for these things.
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You mocked me once, never do it again!
ReplyDeleteI have done some protesting. It's been loads of fun. I still have the umbrella I held at George W. Bush's inauguration. It read "No War for Oil." And then I protested before we went to Iraq, for the same reason. I would do it again.
A protest can be a powerful way to send a message. To show that you are paying attention, and that you are not walking through life apathetically. To say that we, as a group, care. Or are pissed. Or hope in some way that our combined voices might be heard over the dull roar of politics and money.
Protests can also be disorganized and confusing. Slogans can muddy messages. Splinter groups sometimes diffuse the original message.
These people that are protesting now have time. They have time because they don't have jobs. I would rather see them out protesting than at home spending their time on Facebook. At least they are getting some fresh air.
I would argue that you could have been knitting NO WAR FOR OIL scarves and then selling them, spreading your message and making a buck for the effort at the same time.
ReplyDeleteBut this isn't about me or you.
I get the feeling that the Occupy movement is made up mostly of the same people that wait in line to audition for American Idol. Holding up a pithy sign, hoping to make the nightly news, or the grand prize: a viral email forward through the offices of America. Desperately hoping to be maced by a powerhungry patrolman.
Maybe I just like The System, in that it works for Me, at the moment anyways. I've found a comfortable place on the Fringe and I don't want a bunch of solutionless rabblerousers messing it all up.