Monday, November 21, 2011

Analyzing "Occupy"

It occurred to me while reading Nancy Pearcy's excellent Saving Leonardo to try to apply her worldview formula to what seems to be the worldview of the Occupy Wall Streeters. I must say "seems" because their message is really incoherent, as anyone who has tried to make sense of it can testify.

Here template is;

Creation (where does the worldview say we come from, and by extension, to what end or purpose?),
Fall (how does the worldview account for evil, or thngs that don't work?), and
Redemption (what are we supposed to do about it?).

So as I see it, here is the worldview of  th Occupiers.

Creation:  random evolutionary chance, which means that survival is the end-all and be-all.

Fall:  It can't be just "greed," because they are so covetous of the greedy (which might be greed, right?. It must be "inequity."

Redemption:  If inequality is the only sin, then redistribution is the only solution. It's a pity they don't know about all the places that didn't work, already. Oh wait, they don't CARE.

I remember that during the Cultural Revolution in China, everyone was required to wear the same blue "Chairman Mao" jacket. Newsphotos of those days showed seas of blue-jacketed people in the streets of Peking and Shanghai. Within weeks, members of the Party and government cadre were sporting thickly lined brand new silk blue jackets, while workers trod to factories in beat-up, thin blue cotton blue jackets.  Needless to say, the idea was scrapped.

Remember the lesson of Animal Farm:  

All animals are equal, but pigs are more equal than other animals.

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