Occupy Nothing.

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Occupy Nothing.

I am calling bull on the Occupy Wall Street “protests”. This supposed progressive movement is at the least a slap in the face to the very real, meaningful, and risky protests taking place in Middle Eastern and African countries. At the most, it is a laughable and disjointed collection of people, each with different a different motive and reason for joining the protest.

From what I can tell, Occupy Wall Street is more about occupying things than it is a protest against corporate greed, government corruption, animal cruelty, unemployment, and “the media”. Occupy Wall St. or whatever the general Occupy movement is calling itself now seems to be nothing more than a public complaint festival. From New York to California and Wall St. to Main St., the disgruntled are gathering not in unison over a set of ideals, but because they are simply disgruntled.

How can the subjects toward which the occupy movement is directing their anger, much less American public, take these protesters seriously with meaningless chants of “All Day, All Week! Occupy Wall St!”. The slogan ranks among the emptiest rally cries ever uttered. It means nothing! And the pictures below (via Gawker) as well as the documented wierdos only lend support to the incredible emptiness, pointlessness, and general chaos of the demonstration.

Sick and Tired? Get off the streets, take some meds, go to bed. Problem solved.

Nice banner, bro. What does it even mean? Meh. Whatever it needs to mean, bro.

Nice helment, man! Now, you and I both will agree that Wall St. hates to pay for things, like taxes. So, let’s hike ‘em up! But wait. If we raise “Wall St.” taxes, they will still hate to pay for things, so they’ll pass the costs along to us. So…

Civil disobedience, protests, etc. are extremely meaningful and necessary when people are actually having their inalienable rights violated. The civil rights movement, women’s rights movement, and the movement for marriage equality all demonstrate that. What sets these movements apart from the Occupy movement is the unifying set of principles and deep socio-political implications. Unfortunately, Occupy Wall St. is little more than a collection of post-modernists, encouraging one another to protest their independent gripes, together. Occupy Wall St. is a movement born of entitlement and disgruntled Americans lamenting their under-realized American dreams.

Occupy nothing. Work harder. Make your life what you want it to be.