Banks make to much from laundering drug money. They’d never legalize drugs.

Seems like Osterity is both an economic–and social–conservative. Big fucking surprise. What an asshole.

Keep mouthing off, asshole. There are a lot of us out here who are fucking pissed. Your Pravda media isn’t going to fool all of us.

OWS is full of anarchists, so I don’t think it’s atypical. The 60s was overrated because of hierarchical nature of the movement. The kids now are way smarter than the boomers.

It’s not much that America failed, per se, but the limits of capitalism have been reached. This applies to all Western nations. Unless we are able to convert to a sustainable way of living, without the imperative off endless growth and resource deletion, we are headed for very bad times.

Look, I don’t mean to divide, just to express my feelings. There is some truth to what I am saying. The cultural hedonism of the 60s/70s expressed itself in a particularly virulent from of Me-ism. Read some Christopher Lasch. He had great insight on the boomer mentality. So I am not making this stuff up.

Yep, Gen X doesn’t even exist to them. LOL. Oh yeah, we have Curt Cobain and grunge–but otherwise we’re invisible.

Look, I’d be lying if I didn’t say I have a lot of pent up resentment for the boomers. It’s love/hate thing for a lot us. We like your music, but feel that you are the center of attention, even now when your time in the spotlight is past due date. We have endure the hype about how the oldsters now can have it all even in their old age, sky diving in the Himalayas or going on some African safari. We have to be reminded that our generation have contributed nothing, over and over again. It gets tedious. We were the slackers, the scum, who couldn’t get it done. The media still floods us with boomer hagiography.

I’ve heard from Occupy youngsters that they don’t want some of the activists from the 1970s, that they want their OWN revolution–and I agree! While the movement is inter-generational, the twentysomethings should be the ones who guide the movement. Let’s fact it: we need new blood, new ideas. The boomers have had their chance–and frankly, they blew it.

I think the boomers were the ones who gambled in the housing market and got burned. Not all, but a lot. They made it impossible for the younger generations to buy houses in the 2000-2006 period. Poeple in my generation got desperate and bit off more than they could chew; but it was the boomers who created the mess, thinking they could make a fast buck off real estate. I am not saying this was true of ALL boomers, but many. For many of us in the younger generations, this caused a lot of anger and frustration. I am just describing how we generally feel about you folks. It is pretty widespread. I want to work with the boomers to create a new world, but some of them really need to find a moral compass!

Close enough.

No, I do mean the boomers. They voted in Raygun–and went on their jihad against social programs.

The reason why many of the boomer media types don’t understand OWS is because they are wedded to hierarchy. I’ve heard many boomer activists decry OWs for its leaderlessness. This is where Gen X and Y are different from the boomers.

I mean, I lived it. Look at our society. For most of my life, I’ve gotten the scraps the boomers threw at us. They called us slackers. Thankfully, I’ve perservered and worked around their autocratic vision. Of couse, I can’t give you stats. It’s what I’ve lived!

On balance, I like boomers as individuals–but as a group they were lethal, ushering in the shitty business ethics we have to do and the anti-social values that the elite exhibit. Mayor Bloomberg is THE epitome of a boomer. Self-satisfied and incapable of seeing beyond his nose. Steve Jobs is another boomer archetype.

One has to separate bohemianism from hippiedom. The Gen Y kids are activist bohemians, not hippies. Hippies are the crooks that became Goldman Sachs execs.

Funnily enough, I think I dig more boomer music than the boomers themselves. I remember cranking up Who’s Next and an oldsters told me turn it down. LOL.

The boomers weren’t so cool. I know I’ll be flamed, but c’mon look at the mess they’ve made. We live in a perpetual 1968. Plus, the oldsters that were hippies now look at longhairs like aliens. I have a thick beard and long hair and most of the boomers I meet (who you know were hippies) look at me with revulsion. Perhaps they are lamenting a failed experiment.

I agree totally. When Dean Baker was at FDL I expressed the belief to him that capitalism is unsustainable and could not continue to exploit the earth’s resources . Endless growth is a logiistical and ecological impossibility. He didn’t really have an answer to my challenge. LIberalism is not up to the challenge.

If you think anything can be achieved through this broken and corrupt 2 party system have at it. I watched this country circle the drain for 25 years and they all told us to work within the system. Well, that’s fucking bullshit. It doesn’t work. If it had, things would be significantly better. We don’t have the luxury of time now, so I suggest you and all the others who are still obsessed with working within the system get out in the streets as I have and make your voice count.

The politicians don’t and never have given a shit about your or me or anyone else’s concerns. Once you realize that, you will experience a cathartic transformation. Be part of the movement! And if you are already—great! But voting for these corrupt puppets ain’t gonna get you anywhere.

I can’t watch Maddow. She’s part of the problem. It’s obvious where the energy is–and that’s not in the political or electoral system. No one gives a shit what Obama thinks anymore or what he does. OWS is in command of the zeitgeist and he can’t do a damn thing about it. He’s so irrelevant now. he may win reelection, but the protests will continue and he will be forced by US, the people, to do something or be swept away by the riptide of history.

Power to the people!

Most of the country doesn’t see the US gov’t as legitimate. Yet, I don’t think the people in Congress realize how poorly they are viewed. The evidence is in the fact that they work in a bubble, talking about deficit related issues and the budget, rather than dealing with the total rot of our society going right under their noses.

It is only a matter of time when the shit hits the fan. You can’t have such a large political vacuum.