17 December, 2012

A Eulogy for #Occupy | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

A Eulogy for #Occupy | Wired Opinion | Wired.com: Occupy faced what is real in a way that so much of regular life never does. We deputize people, actual deputies, to make the hard parts of life disappear. But that’s all they do, make things disappear. They don’t deal with it, they don’t understand it. They don’t embrace it, and hold it on the ground until it calms down. They just beat on it until it finds a place to hide. In the end, that’s what they did to Occupy, too.

Like the America that contained it, Occupy was never merely its institutions. Which is good, because for the most part, Occupy’s institutions failed its multitudes of amazing people.