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Speaking of Occupy, this sentence in the article got me all excited > President Obama, giving in to pressure from the Occupy movement and other reformers, had
by vinhboy 12y ago
Speaking of Occupy, this sentence in the article got me all excited
> President Obama, giving in to pressure from the Occupy movement and other reformers, had formed the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group.
I wonder if there is an ounce of truth to that.
Too bad Occupy never adopted a leader. If there is anything I learn from that experience, is that there can't be a leader less movement. Someone has to become the face of it.
- mercer 12y agoWhile my information is probably incomplete and biased, I got the impression Occupy 'failed', or rather is perceived to have failed, had more to do with 1) the fact that there wasn't one concrete issue to have 'success' with, on the whole, and 2) serious efforts by the government to crack down on Occupy in a variety of ways that are worryingly clever. In both cases, it's important to understand that Occupy, at least according to prominent individuals in the movement like David Graeber, was ideologically built on anarchist principles. He argues in his book on the issue that being leaderless and 'horizontal' in nature was actually one reason why it did so well, relatively. To be clear: I'm not sure I agree with his viewpoints or his perspective on the Occupy movement. That said, I can still strongly recommend "The Democracy Project" as an interesting and completely different view of not only the occupy movement, but on Democracy and society as well. I've read a number of his books and articles and I like how they make me question things.