tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post3897675457482071985..comments2024-03-27T06:25:29.002-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Immune to Certain Social Conventions'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-63092820753025214902011-12-08T23:21:14.768-06:002011-12-08T23:21:14.768-06:00I’m sure Eric Hoffer would have lots of thoughtful...I’m sure Eric Hoffer would have lots of thoughtful things to say about occupy and its lack of an end game, but honestly, anyone who feels that these people aren’t doing this because of the impact on their own personal lives obviously hasn’t been paying attention. Sowell doesn’t help with his own article on the subject, <a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell110111.php3" rel="nofollow">"Democracy or Mob Rule"</a>, which is so profoundly ignorant of the basic who, what, and why of the movement it’s like he’s living on another planet. <br /><br />I have some compassion, because it’s hard to look at the truth, to acknowledge the degree of corruption upon which our lives are built. It’s so much easier to jump to snap judgments based on a snippet of someone else’s opinion to make it OK to not become informed, because then you can feel better, and not have to have an opinion that could be wrong, and not have to feel powerless or ashamed. I understand the sentiment, believe me, but once you’ve looked as I have at the unsustainable amount of debt in the system now, and how it got that way, you either go survivalist and point your gun at any neighbor, or try to negotiate a different deal, based on our shared human values. My wager is with the latter.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com