Booman wrote a short post this morning called Bloomberg Cracks Down on OWS. Like scratching a rash, the only thing that this action will ultimately accomplish is to spread the infection. This is the next part of a worldwide movement that actually started in Tunisa in December of 2010 with the self-immolation of a man named Mohamed Bouazizi. So far several governments have been toppled in North Africa/the Middle East. As the movement has spread westward and northward through Europe and now into the United States it has left change in its wake everywhere that it has raised its head.
The Greek/Italian/Spanish economic crises? The riots in Great Britain? The current near-disintegration of the European Union? All part of the same system.
And now it is moving and growing in the United States.
Soon?
Eastern Asia, I’m thinking. China. Korea. Watch.
Read on for more.
As I said in my original post about the “Arab Spring” thing about seven months ago (War + Revolution as Earthbound, Traveling Infections):
[The infection is moving in a] generally east to west direction:
Pakistan Afghanistan Iran Iraq Saudi Arabia Yemen Syria Israel Jordan Egypt Sudan Libya
and now headed north by way of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco to…
Spain.
Quick!!! Call the CDC!!! It’s an epidemic!!!
I wonder how far it will spread.
Portugal?
Scuffling.
Italy?
Ripe.
Greece? Read the news.
Georgia? Turkey? The area around the Caspian Sea that author Gary Shteyngart so perfectly labeled Absurdistan? (Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, Kazakhstan, etc.)
OOOOOOooooooo…!!! Gonna take a world cop combined with a world doctor to deal with this infection!!!
Is that us?
The U.S.?
Hell…we can’t even pay our world debt! What kinda bigshot doctor is in hock like that?
But…”Hey, Doc…d’ya think it could skip across the Atlantic!!!??? You know…like that AIDS thing!!!???”
OOOOoooo…scaaary!!!
Hmmmm…
Check it out.
After the debt limit shenanigans, the resultant S&P downgrade and the quite possible imminent collapse of the whole financial system? A NATO Summer to rival the Arab Spring? Could be. Seen the headlines in London and Belfast? We’re next? Could be…
Read on, and may you be born into interesting times.
And, as G. I. Gurdjieff stated:
What is war? It is the result of planetary influences. Somewhere up there two or three planets have approached too near to each other; tension results. Have you noticed how, if a man passes quite close to you on a narrow pavement, you become all tense? The same tension takes place between planets. For them it lasts, perhaps, a second or two. But here, on the earth, people begin to slaughter one another and they go on slaughtering maybe for several years. It seems to them at the time that they hate one another; or perhaps that they have to slaughter each other for some exalted purposes; or that they must defend somebody or something and that it is a very noble thing to do; or something else of the same kind. They fail to realize to what an extent they are mere pawns in the game. They think they signify something; they think they can move about as they like; they think they can decide to do this or that. But in reality all their movements, all their actions, are the result of planetary influences. And they themselves signify literally nothing. …It must be understood that neither Emperor Wilhelm, nor generals, nor ministers, nor parliaments, signify anything or can do anything. Everything that happens on a big scale is governed from outside, and governed either by accidental combinations of influences or by general cosmic laws.
—snip—
As I have said before, man’s chief delusion is his conviction that he can do. All people think that they can do, all people want to do, and the first question all people ask is what they are to do. But actually nobody does anything and nobody can do anything. This is the first thing that must be understood. Everything happens. All that befalls a man, all that is done by him, all that comes from him – all this happens. And it happens in exactly the same way as rain falls as a result of a change in the temperature in the higher regions of the atmosphere or the surrounding clouds, as snow melts under the rays of the sun, as dust rises with the wind.
Man is a machine. All his deeds, actions, words, thoughts, feelings, convictions, opinions, and habits are the results of external influences, external impressions. Out of himself a man cannot produce a single thought, a single action. Everything he says, does, thinks, feels – all this happens. Man cannot discover anything, invent anything. It all happens.
To establish this fact for oneself, to understand it, to be convinced of its truth, means getting rid of a thousand illusions about man, about his being creative and consciously organizing his own life, and so on. There is nothing of this kind. Everything happens – popular movements, wars, revolutions, changes of government, all this happens. And it happens in exactly the same way as everything happens in the life of individual man. Man is born, lives, dies, builds houses, writes books, not as he wants to, but as it happens. Everything happens. Man does not love, hate, desire – all this happens.
By understanding this “Occupy” thing in this way…as part of a movement that can be compared to a disease, although it is really more like a counter-disease or an influx of disease-fighting blood cells, a reaction to on ongoing illness that might be called “Ultra-Capitalism” for want of a more commonly used term…its movements and reactions to the application of standard social doctoring applications like police actions can be quite accurately predicted.
Because of its decentralized, semi-leaderless form, the normal quasi-military approach of “Kill the head and the body dies” does not work. This movement more resembles a flight of starlings or a school of fish than it does a lockstep, clomp-clomp-clomping army or a centralized infection, and thus a “Clearing Zuccotti Park” attack will simply result in multiplying into another set of sites where the disease will strike.
Try to “clear” movements like these and see what happens.
They will just flow around the wind currents or attacks and then continue on in their 99% job of survival.
Next?
In NYC?
The subways. The streets. The real centers of 1% power like the Stock Exchange and the UN.
Watch.
Technologically organized flash mob protests and disruptions.
University occupations.
Hell…it was getting too cold to tent out anyway.
Watch.
This counter-disease will only spread. Bloomberg types and their sharks can always grab a few sardines, but the school is now in permanent session. Graduation time? November, 2012 or just before.
This movement is going to seriously affect the next election.
Watch.
It is on!!!
The first national politicians to succeed in truly allying themselves with this movement will get a huge boost next year.
Watch.
Gurdjieff again:
Everything happens – popular movements, wars, revolutions, changes of government, all this happens. And it happens in exactly the same way as everything happens in the life of individual man. Man is born, lives, dies, builds houses, writes books, not as he wants to, but as it happens. Everything happens. Man does not love, hate, desire – all this happens.
And now this is “happening.”
Watch.
Understand.
And may you be born(e) into interesting times.
Later…
AG