Almost entirely vanishing from the limelight, Occupy Wall Street has begun the metamorphosis, into a well organized institution that will be around forever. Every Occupier website has blossomed into a central hub of support for any surrounding efforts to occupy. This isn’t the beginning of the organizing at all. Occupy Wall Street and the rest of the Occupy Movement, have been incredibly organized, but this is different. This isn’t organizing a camp. This is organizing a working social system that remains non linear and leaderless.
This is the time where people are starting to grab onto the reigns of consensus and pulling toward goals and specific shared focuses that will test the Movement’s vindication. Can a group of unaffiliated members possible start an entirely new social system, while remaining fixed to goals that perpetuate the existing one. Supporting Labor Unions seem like a move to the left and from the numbers that have appeared, under that guise, would suggest socialism isn’t a mutual theme everyone’s behind supporting.
Occupy, in it’s raw form (GA), isn’t itself a political system. It is however a very advanced form of communication that can help make better decisions about our society and how to best implement them. It seems to be a natural inertial response to “Austerity”. In the countries that Horizontalism has been most successful, it has literally been born out of the fringe of society that are shaved off the duty roster by austerity measures. This is an important factor when you consider that the majority of the thinkers and artist in most societies exist as close to the fringe as possible. It’s a very interesting counter balance that will lie dormant as long as this thin layer of society isn’t ruptured.
Political transitions are in America have been viewed historically as a swing from left to right and back. The difference being the political Party who wins the election represents the mandate of the people. This is really different. The one thing that makes this different is a bit of the history behind it. The bailouts, the horrible state and economy, and unemployment aren’t totally unusual. What is unusual about this is the state of the state. There are an equal amount of people that believe in opposite outcomes, and when you consider the wealth base of this passing era, I think half of them are correct. This past era of wealth came from flipping real asset values into debt. Several members of my family owned there homes in 1980, when the deregulations started. Now 2 of 3 owe more on their mortgage than there house is worth. That factor has now expired.
It’s not surprising that Occupy in the US doesn’t have more support from the greater community. It also doesn’t surprise me that the Media and the Mainstream have condemned the movement for being homeless or worse, which somehow seems to offer them the option of considering the group unimportant, or worse, a “Class War”. What’s a shame is a society that betrays any member of that society. It was far less of a luxury as hunter gatherers to neglect members of their own tribe. The health and survival of the tribe demanded total support of the entire tribe, while modern society is somehow removed from this rule, seemingly, when in fact it isn’t. Every society in history that have fallen into economic imbalance have eventually collapsed, whether it was self-inflicted or not.
Occupy, over the last month, has proven it’s legs long, and buckled in for the long winter, not like the dormant bulbs, frozen and waiting for the thaw, but more like the entire genre catalog of caterpillars, that will spend the quiet season metamorphosing into thousands of unique butterflies. This time has been set aside for reflection and growth, that will reinvent itself again this coming Spring, but what is success considered along these lines of interest. Is it changing the face of Capitalism, or giving the Middle Class back their voice. Will we move past central banker control and somehow reestablish a true republic governed by the people. Or is this really the failure of Capitalism. Is it suffering the same fate as Communism did in the Soviet Union when it failed? Will it fall into the abyss of disinterest, falling short of it’s massive hunger for productivity and growth, as is becomes less and less capable of providing the same level of abundance equally across society. Failing to influence the loyalty of the public; temptation of treasures and greatness, when it cannot even support the fringe, the social class most notorious for fostering change.
