All that said, I can’t say that I’m a big fan of the “Occupy” movement. When social media made if possible for a broad range of people to make their disatisfaction known, it had a salutory effect. If that technology had been used to draw people to specific places, where they could engage in some surprising and dramatic symbolic activity, then equally quickly disappear, leaving the authorities to wonder what would happen next, and the public eager to understand what it was all about, then it would have had even more impact. But, instead, things instantly reverted to the accepted formulae. Camping out on the protest site for some undetermined time is just plain dumb. Now, of course, it’s the old-school, old-fart habitual protesters back in control, and those people don’t have the slightest interest in changing anything. There is no group of people more stuck in the past, more hide-bound with orthodoxy, and more ill-suited for intelligent protest
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