An interesting part of the sub culture for change is Anonymous and other net hacking activity, which have done much more good than mass media wants to admit… But I always react quite strongly on the slogan of Anonymous – “We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”
How about: “We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forget. We might forgive, but first much has to change. Expect us.” – or smth along those lines.
Just a suggestion… 😉
A first draft of demands from people @ OccupyWallStreet here: http://bit.ly/pBs5Ju – more info on the protests here: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet
Twitter tags to follow: #OccupyWallStreet #OccupyWallSt #TakeWallSt #OurWallSt
Twitter accounts to follow: OccupyWallSt / OccupyWallStreetNYC
(there are more cities joining in, to find them do a Twitter search for “Occupy”)
To all you people out there – you have my full support – rock on! It seems like you’re doing so much good with the time, besides of course just the fact that you’re there. But I also love the work shops, culture groups, your general assemblies, the tests and development of direct democracy at meetings, etc. I find you great. Big hugs!
Just read an article in the Guardian where the IMF managing director Christine Lagarde tells Europe to bail out the banks – again. Excuse me? What? So after having bailed out our banks, and them seeing them one year later going on with business as usual, paying out massive bonuses instead of using profits to provide better conditions for the people – we should bail out the banks again?
Well.
I’m an evolution fan, although quite convinced of that we don’t yet know how evolution works. It’s such a complex process, and many factors might still be unknown. But the basic idea is convincing to me, and it’s one of my favourite spare time research topics. In that journey I have read some of the work of for example Richard Dawkins, and seen many of the films in which he explains Darwin’s ideas, the theory of evolution, different ideas on altruistic behaviour, etc. He has made so many interesting findings and delivered many fascinating ideas and concepts to the world – like memes (see below). A great mind indeed! Besides, he seems like such a nice person, especially when he holds a lecture for kids.
But even if he seems a really nice person, he can at times come over as a bit too sarcastic and too sure of the truth of his own world view. His atheism is just as much faith-based as any other faith to me, and his failure to see that (or at least communicate that he realizes that if he does), is sad to see.
Shift into Power 