Forum Post: Are Occupiers confronting their own greed and consumerism?
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 4, 2011, 2:11 p.m. EST by a53percenter
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Are occupiers changing their consumer habits? Will they line up again when Wall Street and the Government promise them that they can live like a 1 percenter by borrowing against their future earnings? Until they are ready to confront their own greed and consumerism as part of the problem, there will be no change. Learn to think for yourselves and stop being marketed to.
Many of us are. Many of us have, a long time ago.
Perfection is not attainable. We have to reconcile that with the drive to do good. You are, in a sense, correct: every act or movement to improve the world is a two-front war, internal and external.
My question to you is, have you thought about what justifies the drive to do good? If you argue (as you do above, perhaps accidentally) that only perfection justifies, you are implicitly saying we should never do good in the larger world. I don't think that's what you really mean.
How do you know people aren't?
Only the selfless enlightened leader in love can rule. That's why we have a leaderless movement where everyone votes.