I already know what you’re going to say: It’s not dead, it just smells like that ‘cause none of us has showered in a week.
…but seriously….
No one is ever going to get away with occupying a park for an extended period of time again. We caught them off guard, it was unexpected, it came out of nowhere and went viral on the internet. Lightening doesn’t strike twice. get over it.
This DOES NOT mean the rebellion is over, nor does it mean we will never use the name Occupy again. It does mean that everything we did last was last year. It’s over. Move on. Welcome to 2012.
Already, many in the alternative press, are using the term “post-occupy” in the context of continuing activity. There’s no changing that; in much the same way that the World Trade Protests are now as newsworthy as sunny days in July, or rain in April, Occupy is a been-there-done-that phenomena in the minds of the many. Over the last several months we’ve allowed ourselves to get into a rut and become predictable. There’s a script to Occupy, a formula, like a TV sitcom, we already know what happens in every scene.
We need to do something as different from what Occupy has degenerated into (cops attack, occupiers fight back, people get pepper sprayed and arrested, *yawn* I’ve seen this one before, change the channel -maybe South Park’s on.) as #Occupy was different from routine labor protests. If you can’t break your own molds, you’ve no business making them.
So, where from here?
I’ll tell you as soon as I get over the flu…
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