Field Trip: Occupy Seattle Teach-In

Last night I attended an Occupy Seattle Teach-In on the University Of Washington Campus, where the economic crisis and the dissolution of our Republic was addressed.  Including me, there was never more than eight people in the room, including also the 2 teachers.

The Bolshevik Revolution started with a marginal and unlikely group, and was well financed by powerful interests as well.

The topic was essentially "how to use this moment to advance socialism" and the false dilemma of socialism vs capitalism was presented.

I inquired as to the internal contradiction of having the regulators, who are always captured by the regulated, curb the capitalists, when they have not done so before.

Well, we have to believe there is a structure, a polity in which people behave themselves, where the profit motive is not foremost.

Ah, you mean like Hong Kong.  No, Hong Kong has a CEO in charge, it is totalitarian.  Sigh.

The next step is to shut down the ports.  http://westcoastportshutdown.org/  This will show the capitalists that their system can be shut down.  Good luck.

It is clear capitalism is over, it was slightly better than communism, if you measure it by how long it lasted, but now USA political system is up for grabs.  Those who failed are stealing whatever is not nailed down on their way out.  The activists are working under a false dilemma: capitalism vs socialism.

The desire of activists is to be in charge.  Free markets does not have anyone in charge (except, vaguely, the customer.).  Free markets may solve the problems we face, but free markets do not have anyone in charge.    The search is on for a new system that has people in charge, and the activists are hashing out what this might be, and how they might be in charge.

At best, nothing will change. At worst, it will get chaotic.  Get ready to escape to anarchy.  Get ready to live in a Free Market.





I was a Ron Paul delegat to the Washington State convention.  It became real clear real fast that the Tea Party people (to Ron Pauls' credit he never embraced the Tea Party, and good thing he didn't.)

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