Forum Post: It turns out that the Occupy Wall Street movement is MORE POWERFUL than many had realized. Check this out. Might surprise you.

A lot of agitation is taking place around the nation, much to the consternation of the 1% who benefit from our lopsided hijacked system. There's a great quote that goes something like this::  

"It's the grain of sand in the bottom of the oyster that gives rise to a pearl."

I love that fact. Agitation is productive when leverage is applied in the right amount. . . at the right time. . . in the right place.

Together we, the millions, are greater than the sum of our parts. We can create an unbelievable fulcrum, an unstoppable force that can break these corporate chains and build a new nation based on the original precepts of our founding fathers. Our system can and should serve human beings. The phenomenon of humans being fed upon by the system will clearly no longer be tolerated. The people have awoken and spoken. The pearl is in production in this oyster we call America.

So what is the heart of this movement really about? I would contend that there is one quote from the great Dostoevsky in his masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov" that sums it all up:

"Today, everyone asserts his own personality and strives to live a full life as an individual.  But these efforts lead not to a full life but to suicide, because instead of realizing his personality, man only slips into total isolation.  For in our age, man has been broken up into self-contained individuals, each of whom retreats into his lair, trying to stay away from the rest, hiding himself and his belongings from the rest of mankind, and finally isolating himself from people and people from him.

And while he accumulates material wealth in his isolation, he thinks with satisfaction how mighty and secure he has become, because he is mad and cannot see that the more goods he accumulates, the deeper he sinks into suicidal impotence.  The reason for this is that he has become accustomed to relying only on himself; he has split off from the whole and become an isolated unit; he has trained his soul not to rely on human help, not to believe in man and mankind, and only to worry that the wealth and privileges he has accumulated may get lost.

Everywhere men today are turning scornfully away from the truth that the security of the individual cannot be achieved by his isolated efforts but only by mankind as a whole.

BUT AN END  to this fearful isolation is bound to come and all men will understand how unnatural it was for them to have isolated themselves from one another.  This will be the spirit of the new era and people will look in amazement at the past when they sat in darkness and refused to see the light. . . 

. . . Until that day, we must keep hope alive, and now and then a man must set an example, even if only an isolated one, by trying to lift his soul out of its isolation and offering it up in an act of brotherly communion, even if he is taken for one of God's fools.  

This is necessary to keep the great idea alive."

But that's kind of unsatisfying isn't it? I mean, what do you do right now, today? How can each of us individuals get involved in something that will really make a difference? How about giving this some consideration? http://www.occupywallst.org/forum/fresh-thread-forum-post-below-received-over-2000-c/