And I think we best leave the politics alone since, as I stated previously, you see my critics as negative (“excoriating”) rather then honest and constructive, and that fact alone, is where I draw my meta-commentary  from. But like I said, enough of us talking past each other.

I’m sorry things have gotten this out of hand. Lets please put this to rest.

Could this be the dawning of the age of Aquarius?

Harmony and understanding — no.
Sympathy and trust abounding — no.
No more falsehoods or derisions — ahahahaha!

Unless there’s a lost verse about amateur porn and catLOLs, I’m going to have to say no.

… an independent national general assembly in a country that already has a congress?

… that determines policy by “consensus” rather than “debate”?

… and seems suspiciously intolerant of opinions that dissent against the will of a secretive in-group?

… where have I heard this before?

… Oh.

Then try Megamucil, I heard earlier in the thread  that it oughta help things slide through.

So it is a choice. I knew you guys would slip up sooner or later.

In my struggle against The Man, little did I know I would become The Man.

Try being The Gay for a week. It’s exhausting.

…instead of providing a dozen paragraphs excoriating my lack of communication skills, and tying my one smart-assed interweb comment to the fate of the entire Occupy movement.

Why are we even talking about this?

     
Because you made a comment that was full of feeling and it wasn’t at all apparent to whom it was directed.

So this large volume of words is all about how you shouldn’t be surprised that I was confused, and that I misunderstood the meaning of your comment. Lets just leave it at that. I don’t hold grudges.   

Are we done now? Because I’m done. Good day, and thank you for your cooperation.

I don’t quite understand why you feel the need to psychoanalyze this conversation. I disagreed with someone, I made a comment to that effect, which apparently was a Wrong Thing because it wasn’t completely literal in every aspect. I’m going to continue to disagree, and I assume the people who disagree with me will do the same. This isn’t a kind of teaching moment, where we all realize (in unison!) how little empathy we have for our fellow man. It’s a comment thread. On a website that’s not even related to the movement.

If you’d like to come out to one of the Occupies near me, I’d be glad to explain to you what we’re doing in great detail. Face-to-face, without even a hint of metaphor or a simile.

Additionally, I feel I have to add that the comment in question wasn’t even directed at you or near you. Your first comment her is your indignant response to mine.

Why are we even talking about this?

I wasn’t even saying that the work is ridiculous, but that the comparison is ridiculous. We might as well be talking about how my job is clearly boring, as I’m not a professional escape artist.

Oh, cool. Explain your last paragraph for me.So ‘the internet’ is to blame for your perception that the protesters don’t care what you think?

     
The way you perform you actions online is what I am talking about. The attitude and manner that you take as you deal with someone in a pseudonymonus way. I am not a human form to you, you cannot see me or my body language and I cannot see yours. 

Writing as an act requires a good deal more motivation then speaking. Thus what is written, especially online, contains a great deal of pathos. Your conversation with me is a good example. You wouldn’t continue with it if you didn’t feel that you had enough pathos invested in the conversation.

Now the OWS has a great deal of pathos, in fact I would argue that at the moment that is all that is has to sustain itself. Now in the same manner in which you aggressively dog my comments with energy and moral feeling this is exactly the type of behavior that I am referring to when it comes to OWS.

At no point does anyone take a step back and stop to think that maybe this person cared enough to offer an opinon. Rather it seems to be that there is this immediate pushback that I should offer up any advise outside of spending my non-existant money on a trip to the big city just so I can take part in a street occupation, or that I would even want too!

The short of it is you don’t know my view, and my point is that you don’t seem to care (as your “oh, co0l,” in this usage at least, is just your set-up for your own shoot-down). And that is exactly the attitude that I am talking about with the OWS. This is a movement of the cities and I just happen to live far away from the polis and thus have a different perspective.

I as audience to the OWS thus am left ”in the dark” due to the “lack of transprancy” (i.e. no offical spokesperson) yet I might be interested in what the people have to say. Yet agian no one seems to care enough to actually use all that technology to send out a resonable or coherent message. Instead  the outpouring of pathos continues and OWSers get mad that I don’t want to be caught up in their intense wave of moral pathos. It’s the same with snarky online comments. 

And that I think is where you need to be more openminded. You may me outraged, you may be justified, but you must understand that not everyone is so caught up in the feelings of your moment. People can be reasoned with but pathos is not an end (or even comprehensible) unto itself.

So no the interent is not “to blame,” it’s the fact that the OWS movement thinks the rest of the world lives on youtube and has no other interest other then just watching them occupy. I as a provencial frankly would like a more drawn out explanation and a greater transparancy, which I thought was supported by this movement.  I care about the values that supposedly underpin the movement. It is of great interest to those of us not participating or unable to participate.

You can’t judge a book by its cover and right now thats all that these protesters have shown us.