What we are witnessing is the dawning of a new global zeitgeist.

[FarLeftFist]

Creedy: "DIE! *bang bang bang* DIE! *bang bang*, WHY WON'T YOU DIE?! Why won't you die?"

V: "Beneath this mask there is more than flesh, beneath this mask there is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof!"

And that is the point of OWS, and the point of many of the global revolutions and protests. To plant a seed, an idea. That seed will grow and it's roots will multiply. It will go from a seedling to a massive Oak. It's roots will become deeper and stronger as it grows mightier. That mighty Oak will then drop new seeds and grow new mighty Oaks with their own strong roots.

OWS and global protests are planting the seeds to the dawning of a new spirit. The age of a new worldview. A new global outlook similar to how the Enlightenment swept across the world.

These ideas will have ripple effects that will pave the way to how humans view themselves as inhabitants of planet Earth. We are realizing that we are all connected. We are realizing that a mother in Afghanistan wants the same for her children as a mother in America wants for her children. We are realizing that we have so much more in common with the global community than we have differences.

The entire world is waking up to the fact that austerity doesn't equal prosperity, it equals stagnation, hopelessness, and despair. The people are realizing that we shouldn't be punished and forced into misery due to the mistakes of those setting the rules to begin with. There is now a global realization that the system has been rigged against us all along.

Every single person in that protest will then plant a seed in someone else's mind. A family member, a friend, their child, etc. And that unifying seed will ripple through society for generations to come. The people are sick of stagnation and despair. The people are realizing that we live one life and that it shouldn't be a life of suffering, especially in a world where the Earth is rich in resources and can provide for everyone.

Plant the seed and watch the roots multiply and ripple into the foundation.

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On that note I would like to leave you with one of my favorite movie speech's ever made. It is from Charlie Chaplin in a movie called The Great Dictator. Chaplin was a "radical leftist" who even fled the country during McCarthyism. This has always been my idea of utopia. Enjoy!: http://youtu.be/WibmcsEGLKo

[babydollhead]

1. thank you!

[FarLeftFist]

2. Thanks for reading :)

[RagAss]

3. ...and the seeds need rain...and "It's a hard rain gonna fall" - B. Dylan

[FarLeftFist]

4. Awesome.

[formercia]

5. I guess Globalization didn't work out how the PTB envisioned.

Oh, well.

[Avalux]

6. I see this movement as the internet - an internet of people.

There is no leader, no beginning and no end. Sustainibility is the underlying theme.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, FarLeftFist:thumbsup:

[OneGrassRoot]

8. beautiful, beautiful, beautiful....

:applause:


“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

~ Howard Zinn