Today I am Fascinated by the Occupy Movement
Posted by Fascinationist on Monday Feb 13, 2012 Under PoliticsThere is plenty to be said about Occupy Wallstreet and Occupy Main Street and Occupy Austin and Occupy Seattle and… and the opportunities for real change that it presents.
I am proud of this movement simply for the conversations that it creates. For those camping and maintaining the movement… for the noble motives of representing democracy in the face of communities that have a great deal of extreme members including radicals and homeless… for the media coverage engaging the world and the opinions of Yea! or Nay! that come from it.
As a person that has been mostly a bystander, I will say the idea that draws me more than any other is the potential for this movement to create a new political party… one that is not left or right, but one of moral humility, that instead of being in a haste to represent a side, represents a middle and retains its total awareness, in the face of opportunities to be bought, or sell out, or compromise humanity.