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[Wayne Nelson]

2 things that seem pretty clear to me about the Occupy movement

The economy dominates society and it is creating it's own economic, political and social problems.  Duh. Our work in the late 60's and early 70's told us much the same thing the Occupy movement is saying now.  We recognized it in the protests related to racial equality and in the protests against the war in Vietnam and etc and etc and etc as well.   Governments think their task is to expedite the will of those who control the movement, flow and distribution of resources. The details can be enumerated and have been over the years, but the details are not the point. It is the system itself and it's orientation that needs to be addressed. 

The understandings that form the operating  foundations, structures, systems and the functioning mythology of our society are actually creating deeper problems rather than resolving them. Social contradictions have institutionalized and accepted as the normal way of doing things. Nearly every institution we'd  call a pillar of  "the establishment" has revealed itself to be corrupt, incompetent or both.  After a cascade of scandals and catastrophes, the implicit social contract lies in ruins, replaced by mass skepticism, contempt and disillusionment.

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