[lbo-talk] People's libraries

[// ravi]

On Nov 18, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
>> Shag: "There's not one person I work with who gives two shits
>> about Occupy. Most of the more "progressive" folks I know don't even
>> give one shit."
> 
> [WS:]  Same here.  A few union folk I know are mildly sympathetic but
> the rest - old or young - do not give a flying fuck.  As one person
> described her lack of interest - "sleeping on the McPherson square is
> pretty dumb and does not do anything, it does not bring good health
> care, or education or social services."  When I pointed out that it
> brings people of different orientations together she replied that she
> does not care about that, and many of those voices she disagrees with.
> She wanted intelligent articulation of specific demands and people
> speaking in one voice about them.
> 

These are (in my [anecdotal] experience) the same people who were so pumped up last year (or was this earlier this year) about attending the Jon Stewart rally, the first “political” rally of their lives. I told a work acquaintance that his opinion (similar to the above) about Zuccotti was fine — and nobody, including the occupiers should be bothered or offended — since he was politically irrelevant. I also made up some pithy bullshit about an opinion about politics not equalling a political opinion. I confess it was wicked (not in a Bostonian or surfer sense) fun.

	—ravi