Been at the Rebellious Media conference all weekend – more of which later. I caught the second half of Chomsky’s speech saturday morning – anout 1200 people there. I was impressed. Chomsky took no prisoners. He described the Occupy wall streeters as ‘ naive people who have no comprehension of the real world’. He then went on to look at the demands of the occupiers in both New York and Boston -and illustrate how they could easily be accomodated by the existing banking system. There was a class war going on said Chomsky repeatedly but only one side was currentlt waging it and it wasn’t us!! For the wall streeters read UK Uncut here who have similarly lame financial demands which are similarly easily accomodated. Theres an argument to be made that ‘anything is better than nothing’ but like Chomsky i dont think it is. ‘People will live an intense period of activism for months’said chomsky ‘then vanish from poltical activity forever because of the nature of their demands which pose no threat to the system’
[The old fart smelled this through his important breather holes
Cleverly he dialed from within
>From the outside we observed
That the nose of the wooden mask
Where the holes had just been a moment ago
Was now smooth amazingly blended camouflaged in
With the very intricate rainbow trout replica]