Sunday, October 23, 2011

The spectacle on Wall Street

"From one perspective, this spectacle [Occupy Wall Street] of febrile mental paralysis is simply sad: The New York Times, The New Yorker: they’ve always listed left, but not always looney left. What a falling off there’s been!" . . .

"The 53 percent who actually work and pay income taxes represent a large slice of the putative 99-percent the children downtown are skirling about. Not many of those taxpayers, I reckon, are amused by the congeries of anti-American, anti-capitalistic nonsense that is emanating from Zuccotti Park. And it is worth noting that the anxious carnival spirit that has been coursing through the park has a tenuous hold on the proceedings. Already, widespread theft has instilled a certain grumbling wariness into the populace. It’s hard fighting against the evils of private property when some unfranchised redistributionist collars your laptop or makes off with your wallet."

Roger Kimball

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Murray sez:
I find it amusing that some of the arrests are from complains of others stealing their stuff. I guess that means there are limits to "sharing the wealth" and/or who should be doing the sharing!

Norma said...

The non-professional organizers are going to get a real lesson in life. The strings are being pulled by the union bosses and the communists, and you can only hope that the terminally naive will grow up fast.