Why Occupy? - Occupy Cafe2024-03-29T01:17:30Zhttp://www.occupycafe.org/forum/topics/why-occupy?groupUrl=occupy-poetry&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThank you for this soul-rant,…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2012-01-12:6451976:Comment:211302012-01-12T14:21:01.460ZBen Robertshttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/BenRoberts
<p>Thank you for this soul-rant, Lemme! I think where we land will have much to do with our degree of faith in the sufficiency of the universe, <a href="http://www.occupycafe.org/forum/topics/occupy-as-a-leap-of-faith" target="_blank">as I wrote about in this dicussion</a>. If we live in fear that there is not enough to go around, we will make that a self-fulfilling prophecy.</p>
<p>Thank you for this soul-rant, Lemme! I think where we land will have much to do with our degree of faith in the sufficiency of the universe, <a href="http://www.occupycafe.org/forum/topics/occupy-as-a-leap-of-faith" target="_blank">as I wrote about in this dicussion</a>. If we live in fear that there is not enough to go around, we will make that a self-fulfilling prophecy.</p> Which Whirled World
where wil…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2012-01-10:6451976:Comment:207902012-01-10T23:57:23.748Zlemme howdthttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/lemmehowdt
<h3>Which Whirled World</h3>
<p><strong>where will we land</strong><br></br> <strong>when it all crashes down</strong><br></br> <strong>look up once illusion lifts</strong><br></br> <strong>does our landscape resemble</strong><br></br> <strong>torched, scorched</strong><br></br> <strong>beaten, brutal</strong><br></br> <strong>bombed exploded</strong><br></br> <strong>twisted wreckage</strong><br></br> <br></br> <strong>or nothing changes</strong><br></br> <strong>soviet style</strong><br></br> <strong>central planning…</strong><br></br></p>
<h3>Which Whirled World</h3>
<p><strong>where will we land</strong><br/> <strong>when it all crashes down</strong><br/> <strong>look up once illusion lifts</strong><br/> <strong>does our landscape resemble</strong><br/> <strong>torched, scorched</strong><br/> <strong>beaten, brutal</strong><br/> <strong>bombed exploded</strong><br/> <strong>twisted wreckage</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>or nothing changes</strong><br/> <strong>soviet style</strong><br/> <strong>central planning</strong><br/> <strong>paper pusher</strong><br/> <strong>rules vacate space</strong><br/> <strong>logistics crumble</strong><br/> <strong>exchange solely barter</strong><br/> <strong>values return as values</strong><br/> <strong>when it all crashes down</strong><br/> <strong>as indeed it must, it must</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>can we construct a place</strong><br/> <strong>to support minimized use</strong><br/> <strong>to build capacity to</strong><br/> <strong>listen, to listen, to listen</strong><br/> <strong>people are the wisdom</strong><br/> <strong>when unshackled from jobs</strong><br/> <strong>make work means of support</strong><br/> <strong>to sink or swim simply</strong><br/> <strong>incoercible from outsiders</strong><br/> <strong>consensible from insiders</strong><br/> <strong>with inside out and outside in</strong><br/> <strong>looking to build resource</strong><br/> <strong>based on commons interest</strong><br/> <strong>of local community</strong><br/> <strong>that calls policy shots</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>policy shots - rifle shots</strong><br/> <strong>coming at us from</strong><br/> <strong>the barrel of a gun</strong><br/> <strong>incendiary device</strong><br/> <strong>boom boom stress explosion</strong><br/> <strong>time collapse</strong><br/> <strong>XX</strong><strong>time collapse</strong><br/> <strong>XXXX</strong><strong>time collapse</strong><br/> <strong>XXXXXX</strong><strong>time collapse</strong><br/> <strong>slow down, ya move too fast</strong><br/> <strong>gotta make the morning last</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>but why make Monday morning last</strong><br/> <strong>when forty hours later</strong><br/> <strong>all you've got is tired</strong><br/> <strong>perhaps our frame is skewed</strong><br/> <strong>work for dollars, slave for bread</strong><br/> <strong>to get nowhere faster, faster</strong><br/> <strong>more to do, bouncing</strong><br/> <strong>from cubicle to burger king</strong><br/> <strong>a hollywood video, then bed</strong><br/> <strong>another weekend waste</strong><br/> <strong>til Monday morning again</strong><br/></p>
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<p><strong>the main stream media message</strong><br/> <strong>pumps: do it for you</strong><br/> <strong>me for me, competition</strong><br/> <strong>boys versus girls</strong><br/> <strong>us versus them</strong><br/> <strong>muslims versus christians and jews</strong><br/> <strong>fight boom fight ack</strong><br/> <strong>send our girls to war</strong><br/> <strong>send our boys to war</strong><br/> <strong>send our congress to war!!!!!!!!!!!</strong></p>
<p><strong>stop the group think</strong><br/> <strong>people are not lemmings</strong><br/> <strong>people are not lapdogs</strong><br/> <strong>people are not oxen</strong><br/> <strong>unleash the yoke today</strong><br/> <strong>no justice without thought</strong><br/> <strong>no thought without justice</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>when is a door not a door</strong><br/> <strong>when it is a jar</strong><br/> <strong>when is a crime not a crime</strong><br/> <strong>when the rule change retrospective</strong><br/> <strong>when the elite believe they are elite</strong><br/> <strong>when the people believe they are elite</strong><br/> <strong>when natural law is arbitrary</strong><br/> <strong>Katrina rules and elite drown</strong><br/> <strong>just like everybody else</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>choices to be made today</strong> <br/> <strong>where will we land</strong> <br/> <strong>when it all crashes down</strong></p> If there was a 'Like' button,…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2012-01-09:6451976:Comment:205892012-01-09T18:47:46.960ZGildas ApCaw Sapienshttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/GildasSapiens
<p>If there was a 'Like' button, I would've clicked it. :)</p>
<p>If there was a 'Like' button, I would've clicked it. :)</p> Breakdown
A song/poem – inspi…tag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-12-13:6451976:Comment:176312011-12-13T19:07:18.723Zlemme howdthttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/lemmehowdt
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>A song/poem – inspired from Heartbreakers music</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Breakdown (chorus)</p>
<p>Communications vapid</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Interpersonal raped</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Passions deflating</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Societal quaking</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Fairness doesn’t square with legal</p>
<p>Contracting terms spinning</p>
<p>To where Cheshire cats</p>
<p>Are all that remains</p>
<p>Of once humble politicos</p>
<p>Corrupted by the…</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>A song/poem – inspired from Heartbreakers music</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Breakdown (chorus)</p>
<p>Communications vapid</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Interpersonal raped</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Passions deflating</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Societal quaking</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Fairness doesn’t square with legal</p>
<p>Contracting terms spinning</p>
<p>To where Cheshire cats</p>
<p>Are all that remains</p>
<p>Of once humble politicos</p>
<p>Corrupted by the acts of</p>
<p>Unreachable temptation</p>
<p>Over structural control</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Lies, cheaters, thieves</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Accountants and police</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Teachers, lawyers, agents</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Monetary leaches</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Redistributed wealth</p>
<p>Mind washed pursuit</p>
<p>Conversion of time</p>
<p>Into less useful form</p>
<p>Energy to entropy</p>
<p>Effort to nil effect</p>
<p>Working without depth</p>
<p>Meaning, central purpose</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Anarchy persists</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Purists resist</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Truth provides the cure</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Underlined, underscored</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Freedom is a concept</p>
<p>Of controlling time</p>
<p>Without the need to report</p>
<p>Action takes place</p>
<p>With spontaneity</p>
<p>Surface planning</p>
<p>Locking into place</p>
<p>Burdensome mechanisms</p>
<p>Controlling future generations</p>
<p>Frozen inbox thinking</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Set people off resonance</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Cognitive dissonance</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Tension, people bleed</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Collapse and recede</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Support derived must be withdrawn</p>
<p>War on people shall end</p>
<p>Enforcement of moral law</p>
<p>Dictated by secrecy</p>
<p>No tolerance small scale</p>
<p>No rules elite scale</p>
<p>Critical imbalance</p>
<p>Access to material power</p>
<p>Enforcing order</p>
<p>Where chaos needs to reign</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>People on our knees</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Resource hoarding by decree</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Energy price out of reach</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Blue helmets in to ‘teach’</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Yet continued red/blue mentality</p>
<p>Vote ourselves master elite</p>
<p>Generate outrageous tales</p>
<p>Because reality scares so badly</p>
<p>Marching lemmings</p>
<p>Lock, stock and barrel</p>
<p>Judgment based on faulty assumptions</p>
<p>Using manipulated data</p>
<p>For ‘our benefit’, their pocketbook</p>
<p>Gaia’s ultimate loss</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Communications retarded</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Interpersonal discarded</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Cubicle existence</p>
<p>Breakdown</p>
<p>Organized resistance</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Change is what you make</p>
<p>When tired of the flow</p>
<p>Queries that have never</p>
<p>Been answered straight</p>
<p>Commit to insubordination</p>
<p>Civil disobedience</p>
<p>Working to no longer empower</p>
<p>A system suffering breakdown</p>