economic protest

Jim Kunstler On Occupy Everything

sastyk | October 10, 2011

It was interesting to me that my comments that protesting the economy without also including elements of economic protest were taken to mean "I think Occupy Wall Street is bad." I still think that to be genuinely effective, protests of capitalism have to take into account what will replace it - and our own implication in the system, but I am happy to see the protests growing, and developing an emergent sense of possibility. I think Jim Kunstler hit it on the head this week: This is the funniest part to me: that leaders of a nation incapable of constructing a coherent consensus about reality…