Forum Post: Splitting Wood (and Movements)

I was recently fortunate enough to have some 3' diameter pine logs to split. At 3' diameter, the bottom log (round) had 33 rings (young, prodigious tree). The wood was spongy, and the grain almost non-existent. I could whack on it as hard as I wanted all day, and all I would do is bury my maul.

But with enough wedges, I could break it into pieces. Each piece was much easier to move and split than the log, and in a few hours, the tree was cordwood. That is what has been done to the 99%, since long before America existed. Democrats vs. Republicans, black vs. white, poor vs. middle class, catholics vs. protestants, union vs., non-union, etc, etc. If we cannot learn to avoid being divided, we are cordwood.

Tea Party, liberals, vegetarians, union members, cops, engineers, priests, ... all are part of the 99%. We share a common problem: corruption. Some would like to blame government, some would like to blame the mega-corporations.

But guess what, the ideological divide is a goose chase designed to prevent us from uniting. They are the same thing now (government and mega-corporations). Time for new approaches and new solutions. But a new approach means re-examining the problem, and perhaps formulating new questions. If OWS accomplishes that alone, none of this effort is wasted.