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Zorra

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34. LOL! It seems very clear to me that you were promoting Occupy.
Tue Dec 20, 2011, 07:41 PM
Dec 2011

IMO, you did pretty much lay bare the nature of OWS. That nature just happens to totally scare the shit out of people that live by fear, aggression, violence, hate, and greed.

Like you said in your post, "OWS seeks to replace the entire political, social, and economic culture with a wider sense of human community. It already conducts itself in that manner." I would go even further, and say that OWS is already in the process of replacing the entire political, social, and economic culture with a wider sense of human community.

To authoritarian conservative personalities, the tangible aura of collective human compassion and power to bring about inevitable constructive positive change that characterizes the nature of Occupy is terribly confusing, and overwhelmingly frightening.

I feel sorry for them to an extent; but their harmful, hateful, destructive self and mass delusions and illusions are becoming unsustainable and more lethal to everyone and everything with each passing day, and the world as they know it must necessarily drastically change or they will inevitably kill the planet. We simply can't put up with this childish behavior anymore. They are going to have great difficulty coping without someone in authority to tell them what to do, and authoritarian conservatives by nature lack imagination and the capability to comfortably adapt to new circumstances as well. They'll just have to cope with our peace and love, like we've had to cope with violence and hate. From our perspective, this is a no brainer; but prisoners often become fully dependent on their abusive captors, and abuse becomes the comfortable norm for them.

Fortunately, there's nothing they can do to stop this idea whose time has come.

It will take time for the change to fully manifest, but the power of love has already overcome the love of power, and there is no way to stop it now.

Most excellent Remember Me Dec 2011 #1
Thanks, I appreciate your remarks. nt Deep13 Dec 2011 #5
Or, is OWS a solipsistic post-structural deconstruction of the system... JCMach1 Dec 2011 #9
A couple years ago, I read Foucault for a Political Theory class. backscatter712 Dec 2011 #2
I especially like his treatment of sexuality. Deep13 Dec 2011 #7
I love Foucault's dissections of power n/t RainDog Dec 2011 #3
I see OWS as more Deleuzo-Guattarian than Foucauldian nt tishaLA Dec 2011 #4
Care to eloborate or are you just trying to one-up me? nt Deep13 Dec 2011 #6
I don't try to one-up people on here tishaLA Dec 2011 #10
Thanks. Deep13 Dec 2011 #14
wonderfully said. Burgman Dec 2011 #8
Thanks. nt Deep13 Dec 2011 #19
WOOT! Most Excellent Post. A masterpiece. Congratulations! Zorra Dec 2011 #11
That's an excellent articulation too -- Remember Me Dec 2011 #16
+1 Deep13 Dec 2011 #17
Sharing it Zorra Dec 2011 #28
Thank you for that. nt Deep13 Dec 2011 #18
splendid article! Thanks ! n/t Betty Karlson Dec 2011 #12
Thanks for reading. nt Deep13 Dec 2011 #20
_^_ Zorra Dec 2011 #13
Glad to K & R Aerows Dec 2011 #15
Thanks. nt Deep13 Dec 2011 #21
Very good read. Kaleko Dec 2011 #22
Thanks for your remarks.... Deep13 Dec 2011 #23
Food for thought? hootinholler Dec 2011 #24
Thanks. Deep13 Dec 2011 #25
Seriously, thank you. n/t hootinholler Dec 2011 #27
really wonderful ideas -- thank you for the brain food!! nashville_brook Dec 2011 #26
Thanks for the comments. nt Deep13 Dec 2011 #29
shameless, self-serving kick. Deep13 Dec 2011 #30
Well said. k&r n/t Laelth Dec 2011 #31
thanks nt Deep13 Dec 2011 #32
Hey, there's people on a gun forum debating my blurb. Deep13 Dec 2011 #33
LOL! It seems very clear to me that you were promoting Occupy. Zorra Dec 2011 #34
Thanks, and you explain it very well. nt Deep13 Dec 2011 #35
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