One of the things I’m enjoying most about the OWS movement is the creativity of some of the offshoot efforts. Like this.
By themselves, such efforts aren’t going to change or rock the world. But multiply these sorts of ideas by thousands – or millions – and you’ve got a movement that only channels massive amounts of pent up frustration and anger over our broken economic and political systems, and not only has a strong identity, but is life-affirming and fun. And as any good organizer knows, you can have the most committed people and the most righteous cause possible, but if people aren’t having fun participating it’s very difficult to sustain. The encampments may fade as the novelty wears off and the weather worsens in much of the country, but if the creativity and fun blossom, the movement will simply shift to other tactics. It doesn’t look like this is going to fade away any time soon.