While I don’t claim to know much about the Occupy movement, I am very much over the entire situation.
I’m not saying the movement is misguided; however, I don’t see a movement. When you think of a protest, you imagine Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Tiananmen Square. You hear John Lennon’s “Imagine” playing and envision a sea of people with pickets marching through Washington D.C.
When I see reports on the Occupy movement, I don’t see a protest. Whether or not the media is at fault we may never know, but it shouldn’t be the media’s job to promote their cause. I think last real protest in the United States was the civil rights movement, and though the issues are completely different, the steps taken should be similar. They had no help from the media, and yet still made one of the biggest dents in our nation’s history. Like the civil rights movement, Occupy claims to be a peaceful protest, but I see it as a passive one.
Campgrounds of college students worried about loans won’t achieve anything. It is the job of a protest, in my mind, to educate the rest of us and get something accomplished — neither of which I’ve seen. The problem seems to be that the uneducated are being the loudest, and the real advocates of Occupy are sitting in their tents talking things out.
If you want to protest, be my guest, but it is your job to make me want to listen. I don’t dismiss the ideas, nor do I dismiss the goals of Occupy—but I do dismiss it as a movement.
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