“Occupy Wall Street was always about something much bigger than a movement against big banks and modern finance. It’s about providing a forum for people to show how tired they are not just of Wall Street, but everything. This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness, short-term calculation, withered idealism and intellectual bankruptcy that American mass society has become.”
- Matt Taibi
One of the best political and current event writers going (well, as far as I’m concerned, he’s the best, but there’s a chance I’m wrong), Matt Taibi chimes in on Occupy Wall Street. He’s also the main reason for still paying attention to Rolling Stone. The quote was pulled from a great Matt Taibi article, but I first found out about it in the also great (and extensive) write-up on Occupy Wall Street that Ian MacKenzie posted, which you should check out.
