Time to stop addressing our concerns to the hired help; from now on, we deal directly with the masters

the post title comes from an article in truthdig by lawrence weschler...

Time to Start Preoccupying Wall Street

i'm a little uncomfortable with the notion of "dealing directly with the masters" if only because i don't acknowledge them as my "masters"... i know that, for all practical purposes, they ARE my masters but i'm not interested in petitioning them for a goddam thing... i think they simply need to go away and in so doing release their monopolistic stranglehold on money and power... get the hell out of the way so that ordinary folks can step into the power of self-determination - the way it was meant to be and the way we were born to be...

in the article, weschler offers, as so many are doing following the shut-down of so many occupy encampments, his prescription for next steps for occupy, in short, "a major national mortgage and student loan strike"... whatever the merits of such an idea, the purest grain of truth in the article is in this paragraph...

In doing so, the movement ought to build on another of Occupy Wall Street’s greatest conceptual breakthroughs: the insight that it’s become pointless to address our concerns to the politicians—a political system virtually paralyzed, evenly divided between bullies and weenies, with a president for all intents and purposes veritably palsied with compunction and misgiving (who knows why and who cares anymore?). You don’t occupy Capitol Hill; you occupy Wall Street. And the formula needs to continue to be: time to stop addressing our concerns to the hired help; from now on, we deal directly with the masters.

again, as i've said before, we're dealing with a massively systemic problem here and attempting to address it through the existing system is ludicrous... we're way past the point of incremental fixes...

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