The Occupy Wall Street movement began as a peaceful demonstration
against the corporate greed of America but with incidents of violence
springing up, has it become an excuse for venting personal anger? Is the
movement running the risk of becoming an extremist mob which will
ultimately direct its anger against the very people who contributed in
the building of the economy?
When a mob turns violent, it becomes extremist and narrow-minded in its beliefs and without a well-defined core belief, a mob will always be at the risk of tilting to a general hatred for everything just because it does not confirm to their view.
Every demonstration requires a well-defined objective. What is the objective of the Occupy Wall Street Movement? The official website of the movement defines its purpose and actions as following-
Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colours, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of non-violence to maximize the safety of all participants.
-The Occupy Wall Street movement is fuelled by hatred. We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%, says its belief. Is it the right way to look at all this mess. Just because a few of the wealthy succumbed to greed, is it right to look all wealthy as those who have to be opposed? Is Them Vs Us the right way to fuel this protest? Sadly, No.
When the mob goes violent, It will also crucify those who build the economy. People who owns businesses. People who struggled through their life, achieved success and became wealthy. And they will also be tortured just because they are wealthy. Just because a few of the demonstrators think they should get everything free in their life and others follow in their frenzy.
An example can be seen in the recent Zuccotti Park incident where a protester turned violent at the Mc Donald's because they would not give him free food! Free food!!
People can easily swing away from their objective towards a violent and bloody riot against anything . This is because people tend to act in herds. They confirm one another. It is very difficult for a normal human being to not confirm what 10 other people around him are doing. If 10 people throw a stone, 20 will join and then 50 and then 100 and so on. Greater the number of protesters, bigger it will become.
-The demonstration calls itself a leaderless resistance. There has never been any significant leaderless demonstration in history that has remained non-violent. The problem with a leaderless resistance is that there is no one for the people to look upto and to follow . Every protest should have a leader and people should look him as a God. People should respect him and follow him. Period. And of course, it goes without saying that the leader should be morally perfect.
Prior to Mahatma Gandhi arriving in India, most protests were violent. This is because most were leaderless and those which had leaders were in themselves uncontrollable in their violent spirit. Gandhi arrived and every single human being looked upto him. When his peaceful protest turned violent he called it off because he realised that people were not trained in his way of ahimsa (no-violence) . And after many years, he launched his now historical salt satyagraha and Quit India movement-both peaceful protests which ultimately achieved its objective. Freedom.
People looked upto him. Gandhi trained people to follow ahimsa and when he said NO, the people stopped. He became a God.
And what Occupy Wall Street Movement lacks is a powerful
leader who can say NO when the time comes. What this movement lacks is a
God.
When a mob turns violent, it becomes extremist and narrow-minded in its beliefs and without a well-defined core belief, a mob will always be at the risk of tilting to a general hatred for everything just because it does not confirm to their view.
Every demonstration requires a well-defined objective. What is the objective of the Occupy Wall Street Movement? The official website of the movement defines its purpose and actions as following-
Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colours, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of non-violence to maximize the safety of all participants.
-The Occupy Wall Street movement is fuelled by hatred. We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%, says its belief. Is it the right way to look at all this mess. Just because a few of the wealthy succumbed to greed, is it right to look all wealthy as those who have to be opposed? Is Them Vs Us the right way to fuel this protest? Sadly, No.
When the mob goes violent, It will also crucify those who build the economy. People who owns businesses. People who struggled through their life, achieved success and became wealthy. And they will also be tortured just because they are wealthy. Just because a few of the demonstrators think they should get everything free in their life and others follow in their frenzy.
An example can be seen in the recent Zuccotti Park incident where a protester turned violent at the Mc Donald's because they would not give him free food! Free food!!
People can easily swing away from their objective towards a violent and bloody riot against anything . This is because people tend to act in herds. They confirm one another. It is very difficult for a normal human being to not confirm what 10 other people around him are doing. If 10 people throw a stone, 20 will join and then 50 and then 100 and so on. Greater the number of protesters, bigger it will become.
-The demonstration calls itself a leaderless resistance. There has never been any significant leaderless demonstration in history that has remained non-violent. The problem with a leaderless resistance is that there is no one for the people to look upto and to follow . Every protest should have a leader and people should look him as a God. People should respect him and follow him. Period. And of course, it goes without saying that the leader should be morally perfect.
Prior to Mahatma Gandhi arriving in India, most protests were violent. This is because most were leaderless and those which had leaders were in themselves uncontrollable in their violent spirit. Gandhi arrived and every single human being looked upto him. When his peaceful protest turned violent he called it off because he realised that people were not trained in his way of ahimsa (no-violence) . And after many years, he launched his now historical salt satyagraha and Quit India movement-both peaceful protests which ultimately achieved its objective. Freedom.
People looked upto him. Gandhi trained people to follow ahimsa and when he said NO, the people stopped. He became a God.
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