Some might say it's too little too late, but that's the funny thing about this Occupation: whether you like what they are saying or not, someone is speaking a truth you haven't heard. It could be a personal experience, a hardship, a broken law, a shady tactic, a general message, an abomination of the American dream, but they will be heard, because they are no longer afraid to speak their minds.
I know people at work that are secretly cheering the local Occupations on only behind closed doors, "because they have too much to lose." I know people abroad in the public sector and the private sector in the same situation... they're afraid not of their convictions, but those that have power over them.
So, yeah, you can look at it as Niemoeller did... I would say this is a generational change, and it very well may be. We're the first group to LIVE with computers... we know the ins and outs of social networking and the beauty of free speech on the internet (which will hopefully not disappear with SOAP and PROTECTIP Act). This was the first time that the whole world at once knows what's going on and said, "hey this is kinda fucked up." It's not because we didn't always feel that way, we were just afraid in thinking we were the only ones thinking it.
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11-28-2011, 08:35 PM
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