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Occupy Wall Street
I haven't written about this before. I decided to now because I was just feeling hatred towards big corporations -- because they control more and more of our lives. And care less and less about us. I studied business in school. I got an MBA degree. I didn't always hate companies, business, corporations etc. And I don't always now. But I just wrote this article about hating big companies. If you read it you can tell I had pretty strong feelings. So I can understand why people have had enough of corporations. I am happy to hear about the protests. I encourage people to stand up and say, as some movie suggested "I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore." That was a long time ago, though, and people did keep on "taking it." People put up with an amazing amount of bullshit. Like the people in the town of Goulburn, Australia where Andy Divall and the local city council are fucking the people over. I feel so frustrated and so powerless sometimes. Writing is my therapy and also my way of making some difference, I hope, in the world. I really don't know the answer, but it seems the people need to unite. I couldn't get them to unite in Goulburn. They have learned to accept the crap that goes on. I did what I could there. I told a lot of people. But only a few people really cared. I still don't know why I care more than 99 percent of the population. Maybe it is partly because I have travelled more and seen more, and have more of a basis of comparison to have a better idea of how things could be. For example, if someone has never left their little village in Peru they won't know how wrong it is to hit children. Or to use fear to control society. Or to make students behave like soldiers. Since they don't know anything is wrong with it, it won't cause them pain to know it is happening. They won't feel frustrated and powerless about changing society. That is the same with Goulburn, I guess. The people don't realize how fucked up it is to put a waste processing center on the town's riverbanks, especially when that land could be used for a beautiful park and connected to existing and future parks. So I encourage people to keep complaining, keep protesting. Keep trying to take back the power that the corporations and the government has taken from you. One way is to stop buying so much crap you don't need, by the way. Another is to try to get out of the system as much as you can. For example, try to get out of America if you live there. At least that is one way I try not to add to their defense budget by the way. By not buying so much stuff there, making money there and paying as much into the tax system. Here is a link to Occupy Wall Street I wish them the very best of luck and also that they don't get hurt. I read that one person did already. And, knowing governments, probably many more will. By the way, I was married once, for a short time, to a girl from Russia. She told me how her mother predicted the USSR would break up. I've often thought the USA has gotten too big and it is inevitable that it will break up at some point too. I hope this happens soon, and non-violently. There is too much of a concentration of power. I saw how just in a small town of about 20,000 people how power can be so easily abused. Special interest groups, etc. Bureaucrats. Liars. Bullshitters. Hypocrites. It has to be a million times worse in Washington, DC. S. Hein |
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