Two weeks into Occupy Wall Street protests, movement is at a crossroads

Well, I use "#Occupiers" so it won't really annoy me. "#Occupants" doesn't really jump of the page. Go for something more universal with a better pun.

We use hashtags (#), so maybe if you want to you can create a pun.

Hashies
Trashtags

You're creative. I'm sure you can come up with something.

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That's crazy and smacks of censorship. They should let her speak her mind. I hope she has figured that out.

As for the drums, I get what that one teenager was saying, but I don't think they should be allowed to disturb schools or surrounding households. Good grief, what if there was a hospital nearby?

If they want to share their sleeping bags and stuff that's fine by me LOL.

#Occupiers -- that's Twitter language!

Haven't you heard? The Hashtag is actually a digital swastika!

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/17/bizarre-neo-swastika-reminiscent-of-the-great-dictator-used-as-power-symbol-by-ows-leaders/

Cycloptichorn

How about this christian symbol? + Wasent this the first swastika wannabe!!!

You have to realize that they are on the bleeding edge in virgin territory.

They are living experiments for organizational semiotics establishing new social modalities with each task a given Committee takes upon itself to complete.

Paradigms are shifting around and through them in the manner of a sudden rockslide rather than a centuries old glacier, and they're struggling with defining a global cultural schema that can synthesize static communication, dynamic apathy and anarchic imperatives.

They are composing their generation's metanarrative while attempting to reconcile the incommensurable and reweaving the tattered communal network that they've inherited.

With this much on their plates and with so much at stake, they can't afford to allow the message to morph through undisciplined gibberish masquerading as personal expression.

Boy, was that ever profound, Finn.

I guess.

Occupants is my guess. Maybe they're trying to build a case for adverse domain.

Thanks.

If I knew what it mean't I might be able to tell you if it was profound or not, but I don't have a clue.

It looks, to me, a lot like the pretentious gibberish I've read by people who try and explain why it's not only acceptable that OWS doesn't have a plan or any goals, it's preferable.

What I'm understanding about the lack of a clear agenda is.............(drum roll).......................... critics of the movement are demanding a clear agenda, so clearly giving the critics what they want is not the right thing to be doing.

That does have a certain peculiar logic. Anyway, not having an agenda makes their agenda awfully hard to target.

Sounds like an old movie called Network. "We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore."

Way too many agendas this early in the movement, Roger.

One common thread seems to be coming through though.

That was great!

That author is obviously not wise to the ways of the tweeting twits on Twitter! He got schooled, though, in the comments ahahaha! Some of them are hilarious!

Ah, now I get it! Part of it. Wait. Are you saying she's a virgin and that's why they won't let her speak? Or they're afraid she'll be hit by a rock? LOL whatev.

It's wrong. WRONG, I tell you!

This from the man that almost gauranteed that the dems would keep the house AND the senate in 2010.
Your track record for predicting election outcomes is not very good.

1 for 2 ain't that bad.

But, instead of giving me a hard time about that, let me ask: do you honestly think Perry, Cain or Romney is the guy to beat Obama, considering the advantages a sitting prez has?

Cycloptichorn

It looks like some church leaders are starting to show empathy for humanity! I guess that this will weed the true followers of Christ from the phonies.

"If you help the poor, you are lending to the LORD--and he will repay you!"
- Proverbs 19:17

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