R. Buckminster Fuller articulates it (Occupy movement) perfectly from the past yet again...

[drokhole]

"The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies. The youth of Earth are moving intuitively toward an utterly classless, raceless, omnicooperative, omniworld humanity. Children freed of the ignorantly founded educational traditions and exposed only to their spontaneously summoned, computer-stored and -distributed outflow of reliable-opinion-purged, experimentally verified data, shall indeed lead society to its happy egress from all misinformedly conceived, fearfully and legally imposed, and physically enforced customs of yesterday. They can lead all humanity into omnisuccessful survival as well as entrance into an utterly new era of human experience in an as-yet and ever-will-be fundamentally mysterious Universe."

His genius is missed.

[tabatha]

1. Thanks.

[drokhole]

5. My pleasure!

:)

[Dawson Leery]

2. No thug in a cop uniform serving the olicharchs can match this.

[drokhole]

7. You're right. For some reason, I don't think this guy is capable of such nuanced insight...

[Dawson Leery]

8. People who blindly take orders have NEVER made it in leadership.

They have never build anything great value either.

[drokhole]

9. And, what's worse, when they dismiss it with "I'm just following orders" or "I'm just doing my job"

...when it comes to all too often dishonorable, and sometimes downright destructive, deeds. This extends beyond police officers, as well. Even if it weren't reminiscent of the familiar and unsettling "Nuremberg Defense," it's like, what - did you check your mind and conscience at the door?

[Dawson Leery]

10. Certainly anyone who uses the "Nuremberg Defense" will never amount to much.

[girl gone mad]

3. Is this from Grunch of Giants?

[drokhole]

4. It's in "Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking," but...

...more specifically in its introduction The Wellspring of Reality, which includes another of my favorite quotes/insights:

We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual's leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

And:

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

I have not yet had the opportunity of reading Grunch of Giants, but thank you for bringing it to my attention!

[napoleon_in_rags]

6. Science first.

IMHO, the best thing any movement can have right now is a total embrace of science. Its never happened, but when/if it does, it will change the world.