When the Egyptian masses and a small US-funded revolutionary organization were able to bring change to the Middle East throughout the Arab Spring, I became completely enamored with the idea of a new global century, something that I have advocated for decades. I was so caught up in the moments that I had to see for myself. For the past six months, I have been traveling throughout the Middle East and Southern Europe and seeing first hand the changes that are taking place in this world. The old yoke of what is being lifted and new horizons are, for the first time, opening to welcome us.
I have returned to what does indeed seem to be the evil twin of the Arab spring: the Occupy movement in the United States. Independently funded and completely defying the expectations of conventional sanctioned dissent in the US, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread throughout the country, and the state has been prudent in sub-contracting the anti-protest security arrangements to Xe. I had warned against these developments in GCP and in my talk at the 2011 Private Property Summit last January in Washington, where I argued that having paved the way for a veritable coup d'etat in the realm of property, many were now comfortably laying back and letting their guard down as the dominoes began to fall. Somebody is going to have to clean up all these dominoes.
The guardians of the gates, asleep at the wheel of progress, half-mindedly criticize the Occupy Wall Street folks saying that they are unemployed, useless parasites, who don't want to work, of course, playing right into their strategy of highlighting the fact there has been no appreciable job growth since the beginning of this whole thing back in the 1980s. If we keep drawing attention to this fact, it will be game, set, match.
Nobody wants to see a change in the course, and our position is far too strong for us to compromise. Criticizing these young protesters for their "uselessness" and "unemployment"--the very purpose for which we've long striven--is tantamount to the infamous adage of "let them eat cake." Don't give them the satisfaction of throwing it in our faces. Call it what it is. A revolutionary awakening and a movement against the imbalance of the status quo. A movement that will never be allowed to succeed.
