Forum Post: The 1% isn't scared. This is why:

I usually don't post my personal thoughts on forums, but the more I read and experience relating to the phenomenon that is currently occurring in America's streets, the more I am compelled to comment. I generally agree with the issues that the Occupy wall St. movement is fighting for, but I doubt the ultimate effectiveness of the methods in which this battle is being fought. Occupying city squares for weeks and months at a time is a great way to inform the world about what we're thinking and feeling, but it's unfortunately weakening our power to ultimately change the issues that grieve us. The problem is whether we like it or not, whether it's fair, right and just or not, in this country money through the "free" market equals power. The people that make up the "1%" have nearly unlimited amounts of this power, and the people that make up the "99%" have a very limited supply by comparison. Holding a sign in a square isn't going to make this paradigm shift. While we stand and yell, we expend our limited power while the affluent sit back and amass more. The harsh bottom line is that the "1%" hasn't actually done anything wrong according to the system. The "99%" might not like how the "1%" is behaving, but in our system the mass majority (including most of the rich) aren't automatically entitled to money that equates to power and by no means is anyone required to hand over that power without something in exchange. The elite in this country are sitting in the seats they are today because they accumulated American power by navigating through and conquering the system that stood before them. They know the game and they are the all-star team. naturally The "1%" wants to continue playing a game they know they can beat. If we truly want the rules of the game to change, than we first have to become better at this game, with the rules that are currently in place, than the "1%ers" are, and beat them at it. Remember playing the game 500 during recess so many years ago? It's like that. Once you catch the ball you get to go up and make the rules whatever you want, but your not going to catch the ball by sitting on the wall (st.) of the playground glaring at all the other kids that are playing. We've been heard. Good Job. The "1%" know who we are now and how we feel, but they're really not worried yet because we're still sitting atop that wall, glaring at them. It's time to put down our signs. I challenge you all to find an industry that you want to change, and apply for a job in it. If you don't get in the door the first time that's truly OK. Find out why you didn't get in, adjust, and then try again. If you are tenacious you will step through that door eventually. there's nothing written that says you can't because you're not entitled, remember? That also means that you're not really limited either (at least within the rules of the game). once your in, learn the rules and play HARD. Bob and weave your way through the ranks. Play to win with the intention of changing the rules when you do. By the way, don't necessarily tell everybody that's why your playing, because then they'll try their hardest to not let you win. That's one of the rules you have to learn ;) If enough of you take on this challenge, at least some of you will make it to the summit, and then you will be king of the mountain, holding the ball, and perhaps then you will finally get what you yearn for. We can not TALK our ideal reality into existence, WE MUST WORK it into the world like an artist works marble or clay into a priceless masterpiece.