Occupy

 

I rarely watch the news, it's repetitive and boring. I have seen the same news update about some vandals defacing a statue at a school for the past 4 days.

 

One story that continues to attract attention is the Occupy Movement. It's directed at the social and economic inequality that is evident on our planet through widespread corporate greed and monopolization of business and technology.

 

It has been going on for weeks now in Toronto (and globally). There are legitimate protesters that truly want to make a difference to streamline more social consciousness and incur more fiscal responsibility of the Democratic nations. A tent city is set up in Toronto's down town core. They have kept it fairly clean and neat, but now the city feels it's time for these people to march on and out.

 

 In my youth I was always in it for the underdog, I spent some time unemployed because I did not want to conform to society's social and political standards. I quickly realized that strutting around in Doc Martens, jobless and angry was not going to help anyone least of all myself. The best way to have your voice heard is from within the environment. I gained employment at a Financial Firm, where I learned that although it is always about the bottom line, I can invest my time into the global machine and have my voice heard in a proper forum. I have a more ample opportunity to make that change for equality starting within the hub.

 

Watching some of the interviews the media has conducted with some of the protesters, I'm quickly inclined to believe that they do not really know why they are protesting or what they are actually talking about. Protest for the sake of protesting. I can't help but feel a twinge of embarrassment for them as they mumble and fumble their way through their explanations and beliefs staring out into space trying to deduce something tangible. My questions to them: Do they have a passport? Have they ever actually visited, lets say the Middle East or a Communist country? No matter where you go, people want to work, to provide for their families. They will work for an offshore oil refining company or a mining company that is stripping their resources if that's where the works at. They are bringing bread home. Do they want these big fat corporations to pull out of their backyard and cut the life line. Hell No!

 

Is the visual of seeing corporate people who are doing their jobs and contributing to society that much of a disturbance?  I believe in human rights. People have the right to work and provide for their families. People also have the right to protest for what they believe in, if they really believe in it and understand it.

 

I would be more convinced of their cause if it were hoards of ex-Bay St analysts dishing on the goings on of the secret behind closed door handshakes. The world is going through a financial meltdown. These kids are preaching to the choir.

 

Yet...

 

Food for thought: Kim Kardashian spent $20mm on a wedding that lasted 72 days- someone worked that out to $277,777 dollars a day. Rapper 50 Cent made $10mm dollars on a penny stock that he had dibs on through a tweet to his fans.

 

How much equality could that have bought?                                             It's all about perspective.