From: The Only Fields That Matter, chapter 7:
One movement materialized in 2011 to express just how hopeless people had become in the Great Recession as job seekers. Economic oppression was undeniable and also overwhelming the post-college demographic but as a movement, had no solution ultimately. You recall that embodied voice against the wealthiest one-percent; it was the Occupy Wall Street movement. I tracked this assembly on Twitter and across the media for their two-year run and came to my own conclusion: OWS was a counterfeit movement frayed by multi-ideologies. I believe that the counterfeit will soon be followed by another movement characteristically more aggressive; it will be validated and receive support from institutions and organizations and work in alliance with sub-cultures that demand recognition of their oppressions. The problem in America is that institutional and economic oppressions haven’t become bad enough; unemployment being the lead issue here in 2011. When they do reach bad enough an allied movement will form. Rather than competing for a stake in the debates surrounding civil liberties the oppressed will strike out as an alliance. That central economic failure targeted by OWS remains in America - but is so much deeper that pure economics.
The next movement, on the next iteration, will certainly retain its comprehensive economic overtones concerning inequality and lack of jobs but likely carry the analogy to victimization joined by those locked in racial, immigration and sexual rights issues. Could it be possible, too, that following after President Obama, himself a promoter of activism, that America's next president distinguishes his/ her platform by a whole different set of issues? I see another movement on the move; forming, waiting. Counterfeit movements often precede authentic ones.
Robert P. Waters, Author of The Only Fields That Matter. A Narrative from the Great Recession. an eBook at amazon.com, 2014
One movement materialized in 2011 to express just how hopeless people had become in the Great Recession as job seekers. Economic oppression was undeniable and also overwhelming the post-college demographic but as a movement, had no solution ultimately. You recall that embodied voice against the wealthiest one-percent; it was the Occupy Wall Street movement. I tracked this assembly on Twitter and across the media for their two-year run and came to my own conclusion: OWS was a counterfeit movement frayed by multi-ideologies. I believe that the counterfeit will soon be followed by another movement characteristically more aggressive; it will be validated and receive support from institutions and organizations and work in alliance with sub-cultures that demand recognition of their oppressions. The problem in America is that institutional and economic oppressions haven’t become bad enough; unemployment being the lead issue here in 2011. When they do reach bad enough an allied movement will form. Rather than competing for a stake in the debates surrounding civil liberties the oppressed will strike out as an alliance. That central economic failure targeted by OWS remains in America - but is so much deeper that pure economics.
The next movement, on the next iteration, will certainly retain its comprehensive economic overtones concerning inequality and lack of jobs but likely carry the analogy to victimization joined by those locked in racial, immigration and sexual rights issues. Could it be possible, too, that following after President Obama, himself a promoter of activism, that America's next president distinguishes his/ her platform by a whole different set of issues? I see another movement on the move; forming, waiting. Counterfeit movements often precede authentic ones.
Robert P. Waters, Author of The Only Fields That Matter. A Narrative from the Great Recession. an eBook at amazon.com, 2014