Thoughts on their intellectual exhaustion and maleducation:
To our mind, that sentence more than anything we’ve read encapsulates the spirit of Obamaville. It originally appeared in a San Francisco Chronicle story about an incident in which “dozens of college students” invaded a Bank of America Branch, “pitching a tent and chanting ‘shame, shame’ until they were arrested.”
On the way to B of A, they paused at Citi to scream at the walls. These are college students, acting like 2-year-olds throwing a tantrum. What does that tell you about their critical thinking skills–and about the standards of American higher education? The likes of the New York Times expect us to take such incoherent spasms of rage seriously as a political “movement.” What does that tell us about the standards of the liberal media?
Pretty much everything we need to know.
Doesn’t sound much different than what we used to do in Guerrilla Theater (Street Theater). I ran a street theater group myself back in 1971. Of course the things we did had costumes and a bit of black humor to them, but that takes practice and besides which, I had loads of real theatrical experience.
All I can say as an employer is that I would never consider hiring these “graduates” for anything at all.
Onepercenter! Don’t you understand the debt these people accrued while
partyingstudying in college? If you won’t hire them, how will they pay off their debt!I’d been wondering what ever happened to Jeff Spicoli. I used to worry about him back in school.
One day I said to him, “Why don’t you get a job Spicoli?” and he says “What for?” So I says, “You need money.” And he said, “All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.”
I figured one day he’d notice that he didn’t have a job and get all motivated to change the system and shit (on a squad car). He was always a little interested in civics, politics, and history. I remember the time he told Mr. Hand, “What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place ’cause it was bogus; so if we don’t get some cool rules ourselves – pronto – we’ll just be bogus too! Get it?”
So the other day I saw Spicoli on TV in the park! He’s banded together with a bunch of other dudes and is tellin’ ’em all about the harshness of capitalism and stuff. Whatever Mr. Hand said to him, it didn’t seem to take. I figure cause Jeff was always too dazed and confused to sweat the details of international finance and the nuances of the securities market, but it’s nice to know he’s still fine.
He never got over Mr. Hand taking his pizza, eating a piece himself and giving the rest to the class. He sees Mr. Hand as the bankers, taking people’s stuff. What he didn’t realize is that Mr. Hand was the government, man. He took Spicoli’s pizza and redistributed the wealth, after taking the first big piece for himself, of course. If only Spicoli hadn’t been so stoned all the time, he would’ve learned that the real enemy is the government, not the bankers.
Yelling at walls and camping in a BofA. Probably only generated a few hundred thousand bucks in free publiciity and another couple thousand bored teens into the fold. What a bunch of dummies.
“…and another couple thousand bored teens who won’t vote into the fold. What a bunch of dummies.”
FIFY K
I’ve been amused by all the liberals who keep pining away for OWS to become a real force for social[ist] change. They keep writing articles and posts saying “Let’s hope the OWS leadership is wise enough to do X and Y and then perhaps even Z,” giving advice about how they would run the movement and imagining a scenario in which the OWS folks aren’t a dysfunctional group of morons.
I’m tempted to comment “and if only monkeys would get organized and build a banana farm! It’s nice to dream about a world where chimps were smart and could accomplish anything, with of course you as their leader, but sorry, they’re chimps, OWS is chumps, and neither will accomplish anything more than screeching, flinging poo, raiding piles of food, causing local chaos, and picking lice out of each other’s hair. The most we can hope is that some budding Jane Goodall will study their behavior and explain up-twinkles to the rest of us.”