So maybe what we have today are not problems, but meta-problems.
It is very useful to confirm our understanding with others, to meet with fellow humans – preferably face-to-face – strength flows from this.
However, disquiet remains - no pre-catastrophic change of course seems in any way likely. What we might call ‘Fabian’ environmentalism has failed.
Occasionally a scientist will be so overcome with horror that he will make a radical public pronouncement – like the drunken uncle at a wedding, he may well be saying what everyone knows to be true, pulling the skeletons out of the family closet for all to see, but, well, it just doesn’t do to say that sort of thing out loud at a formal function.
This is all a little bit strange.
Here’s to Fridays! Hope you have a *sparkling* weekend.
Glass.
FOOTAGE. Woman arrested at Citibank 555 Laguardia (around West 3rd/Bleeker). She’s wearing a business suit, clearly not protesting, just there to close her account with the bank as part of a group action. NYPD surround her, scare the shit out of her, and arrest her. For closing her bank account.
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.
ETA: OK, I’m rewatching this, and I may have gotten it wrong. The woman shown here may be the woman we hear on camera communicating with the folks locked in the bank and giving them the legal aid number. In which case she’s being dragged off by the cops for informing people not yet under arrest about their legal rights? I don’t know which scenario is worse. If anyone has the real scoop, I’d love to hear it.
ETA2: NYPD announce that 24 people were arrested at the earlier Citibank incident. They were all charged with criminal trespass, while one was also charged with resisting arrest.This is according to Jonathan Lemire at the Daily News.
http://live.nydailynews.com/Event/Occupy_Wall_Street_Showdown_at_Zuccotti_Park
GPOYW
Taking it all in.