It came to pass just as South Park predicted.\u00c2\u00a0 As the Occupy Encampment moved to its final mark of the radicals bruising for a showdown with the Riot Gear Cops, I saw a lone figure sit at a nearby vacant lot — a tent, a sign that said “Independent” over “Occupy Artists’ Refugee” and holding up three cardboard signs.\u00c2\u00a0 “I Protest Theft”, “I Protest Addiction”, “I Protest Sexual Assault”.\u00c2\u00a0 You won’t find many dissenters for that, I suppose.<\/p>\n
And I saw a group of a dozen cyclists go by.\u00c2\u00a0 Shouting “We Bike for Social Justice”.\u00c2\u00a0 ‘Cause we need some material for the next season of IFC’s Portlandia series.<\/p>\n
And I watched the End of the Occupation Encampment, with a horde of other people.\u00c2\u00a0 It was that protest for protests’ sake — defiance for the sake of defiance.\u00c2\u00a0 It is here that the protests kind of grow met, post-modern, referential — They forge against the death of this protest.<\/p>\n
Reportedly earlier in the day, 6 hours after the Eviction time, at 6 am, the Camp shouted about Victory.\u00c2\u00a0 Why, I have no clear idea.\u00c2\u00a0 No, it seems a strikingly careful and just police response, careful and plodding and patient in their aim.\u00c2\u00a0 The necessity of the media is to grab the most photogenically stereotypical figures doing stuff, and I guess we have that.\u00c2\u00a0 And we have the winner of the “Last Person at Occupy” derby before being removed from the park.\u00c2\u00a0 Good for her.\u00c2\u00a0 A bit of a booby prize, I think.<\/p>\n
And now we see the floating debris of the future of Occupy.\u00c2\u00a0 A banner stating an intention to “Occupy” whatever bank, a march to “Shut Down” wherever whenever.\u00c2\u00a0 It strikes me that the Occupiers might have proven themselves useful as a counter-force to this promotional effort from a credit card company handing out a device that makes it easier to swipe your credit card at any time.\u00c2\u00a0 This is Ad Busters material, right?\u00c2\u00a0 If it can get nimble enough to march at these when they pop up, that’d make it a useful force.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead we just have a smashed bank window.<\/p>\n
And now we get the individual splinters, focal point in a general direction of liberal – left – radical.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the current mode of Political protest and dissension, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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