Sunday, August 18, 2013

Our national dialogue about the future is lost. The politics that rule the day is about the past. It attempts to reach into the past to bring it forward. Has the country become so misguided about it's present the future is out of sight. 

An entire generation of Americans were left out of the nation's plans and there is every indication the powerfully frustrated intend to do the same for time unending. I find it really odd that a Cable Series is the only place the movement started by Occupy can receive justice.

...Note that the article (click here) called the protesters "noble" and "rightly frustrated" before describing the semi-nude woman who was part of the movement and the other assorted goofiness that was, in fact, impossible to miss at Occupy Wall Street. The article tried to take the subject seriously, but the participants made it difficult.
By the next day, leftist supporters of OWS like Allison Kilkenny in The Nation were attacking the New York Times coverage with the same broad "the media doesn't take us seriously!" point of view that Sorkin expresses in his art, saying:...

The media just wants the younger Americans to simply go away. Maybe they always have. Maybe that is why students on campus across the USA took to protests to stop a war. But, an entire generation of unemployed? What the heck? Why?

We aren't solving the nation's problems, we are playing exploitative politics.