“You have these weird phenomena like Occupy where people are protesting with no goals, no theory of how the world is, around which they can structure a protest. Basically this incredibly, weirdly, thoroughly disempowered group of people will have to inherit the power of the world anyway, because sooner or later everyone older is going to be too old and too technologically obsolete and too bankrupt. The old institutions may largely break down or they may be handed over, but either way they can’t just freeze. These people are going to be in charge, and it would be helpful if they, as they come into their own, crystallize an identity that contains certain cultural strengths like argument and reason.”
I don’t see how that follows. From studies of the demographics of Occupiers I’ve seen, the movement has attracted the relatively less successful members of the white upper classes, graduates from elite universities and such who haven’t found their places in life yet. Nothing about the whole Occupy fad signals notable intelligence or competence to me.
I could see that this disaffected White Men’s March would fold any way given how male psychology works. Gather a bunch of young losers together, and the men with more organized lives will naturally mock them, like the ones at the Chicago Board of Trade who posted signs on their windows, “We Are the 1 Percent.” Young men HATE public humiliation by more dominant men.
I don’t see how that follows. From studies of the demographics of Occupiers I’ve seen, the movement has attracted the relatively less successful members of the white upper classes, graduates from elite universities and such who haven’t found their places in life yet. Nothing about the whole Occupy fad signals notable intelligence or competence to me.
I could see that this disaffected White Men’s March would fold any way given how male psychology works. Gather a bunch of young losers together, and the men with more organized lives will naturally mock them, like the ones at the Chicago Board of Trade who posted signs on their windows, “We Are the 1 Percent.” Young men HATE public humiliation by more dominant men.