Rant about Occupy Protests

The Requirements:

Stop criticizing. It says more about you than anything else.

Stop commanding knowledge! You’re ignorant like the rest of us.

Understand your unbelievably large amount of ignorance and welcome it with humility. You don’t know 99.999999999...% of what actually exists in a single one of your own brain cells, let alone an entire human brain and then an entire society made up of individual lives and decisions.

  

Stop using yourself as a one-man sample size for how the rest of the world should act. You don’t even understand your own brain and body, stop claiming to understand that of others.

An Application:

Accept that you don’t understand how the economy actually works, even economists don’t.

Accept that each person protesting is protesting for their own personal reason, and even if they were to explain it to you in a 300 page novel, you would still not fully comprehend the infinite number of individual events and circumstances that brought them there. You don’t know every individual and their reasons for being at the Occupy protests, so how in the world could you comment on the masses?

You probably have not even been to one of the protests, so how can you even comment on what they are like? Because of what someone else told you they were like?

Stop criticizing the man who doesn’t work 10 hours a day, and stop praising the ones who do. Stop pitying the woman who cannot pay her rent and stop critiquing the ones who can.

Why criticize someone who is protesting because he knows he probably won’t be able to command more than $100 a day for the rest of his life or admire the person who makes $1000 a day working the same 10 hours? Life is a bit deeper than your income level.

And even then, you have no idea why person x probably won’t make more than $100 a day, she could have stolen a bike at 14 years old and ended up going to jail because she had some weed on her, and now she can’t get a job because she has a record from getting into a fight in prison…and she doesn’t even smoke weed anymore!

Just accept that the world is more complex for you to try to make any real judgments on other people without decades of consistent research... and most research is eventually proven wrong!

My Own Ignorance:

If a skin cell on my forearm needed water, would a skin cell on my elbow look at it and say "I worked hard for my water, why can't you?"

It isn't about giveaways, it's about humility. Try driving your car without the mechanic who made it, yeah your so independent.

Sometimes helping people isn't what everyone needs!!!!

And stop thinking in this left-right binary...I'm not an ant, I have the capacity to understand things a bit more complicated than liberal vs. conservative.

Please, I was raised in the 90s with a good education, I wouldn't waste my resources believing that a two-party system with funding based on donations would actually ever get things done, let alone morally... why aren't we protesting that idiocy?

We want to feel like things are improving, but as soon as protesters start making a fuss about fixing stuff, why do people get mad?

That's probably why I want to go into education, there's more hope in that than waiting around for people with wealth or power to care about anything else besides themselves and possibly their immediate family. And why should I expect them to?

Happy Holidays!

... And don't worry! In 100 years our bodies will be just molecules in a plant or particles on a ray of light headed for another galaxy...!