On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:02:01 -0700 (PDT), harry wrote:

On Oct 23, 4:55*pm, "
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On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:36:00 -0500, "tom" wrote:
Occupy Wall Street: My One Demand

By Jinger Dixon

October 18, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- * I was recently asked what
I thought the “one demand” should be for the OWS protest. That's a tough
question. I've seen many lists of the things people are suggesting. Most
seem well intended. However, no one demand alone even begins to scratch the
surface of what‘s wrong here. In fact, in a way, it points out how far we
really are, from seeing where we really are. To sum it all up in one demand
seemed impossible, so I decided to try. After much thought, I constructed
the following analogy to describe my take on this whole One Demand issue.

Take a map and draw a circle, then say, everyone outside the circle is to
have their labor and resources exploited for the benefit of those inside the
circle. If you live outside the circle you say, “this system is completely
****ed up.” If you live inside the circle you say, “this is capitalism and
it’s the best system on earth you should try it it's awesome. Sure, people
outside are suffering, but who gives a **** about them?” Now as the circle
shrinks, as it is designed to do, concentrating accumulated wealth, people
begin finding themselves suddenly outside of the circle. They jump up and
down and cry foul, but the ones still in the circle say, “tough ****, you
were too slow, should'a run faster to stay inside the circle“. But then,
they soon realize that they too are too slow to keep up with the rapidly
shrinking circle, and quickly they find themselves left out, so they cry
foul. “The system is broken!!!” they decry! But is it? Isn't this the way
the system has always functioned? Why is it now broken just because they,
we, no longer reside within the bounds of its benefits? We stand outside the
ever shrinking circle, yelling fixes, throwing band-aids, making demands
that the ever shrinking circle expand! at least big enough to include us so
that we can go back to not giving a **** about the people outside, but alas,
it will not. The circle does not expand, it does not know how. It only knows
how to contract, concentrate, condense, like a dark star collapsing in on
itself. There is no “demand” that will drag the borders of the circle back
around us. And even if you could, would you? Would you go back to ****ing
the rest of the world to have your cable TV and your steel belted radials? I
hope not. I hope the world is ready to say no more. No more. Therefore,
since it is my sincere belief that the circle is/was and always will be
****ed up, I say, surround them and demand that they collapse in on
themselves and disappear into their own black hole.

No, capitalism is the *one* system where, if you're outside the circle you
can, ON YOU OWN, move inside the circle. *You don't need the permission of
those inside the circle.

That is my One Demand.

No, what you demand is that people "inside the circle" give you what you want
with no effort to move inside the circle, on your own. *Actually, you demand
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Tch tch. The ones inside the circle do their damndest to keep everyone
else out. They believe society exists for their benifit alone.

Like everything else you write, complete bull****.