Occupy Amsterdam Analysis 2/6
Channel: Tantra Movement
Date: 03/02/2012

Analysis of a society with a problem: the Occupy Movements
In Berlin around 5000 people protested near the Brandenburger Tor on October 15th 2011 and protesters are meeting everyday since. While Winter is getting colder and colder, I think its is time for a reconsideration of the direction Occupy should take, I feel a need to start a discussion on how to communicate a clearer message and formulate goals to achieve.
Change? But how? Below some considerations, starting with the 'creative class', that I see as the main actor of the 'Occupy Movement'.
A big and peaceful demonstration near the Reichstag in Berlin to protest against the saving of banks, the corruption, the so called 'financial crisis', the occupation of Libya by Nato troops, the cuts on social and cultural budgets while the armies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya etc. keep on being financed etc. etc.
October 15th 2011 shows that people all over the world are protesting against current policies in the Western world and that there is a growing consciousness for a change on a global scale.
I think the creative class (that's consisting of people working professionally in creative sectors: Media specialists, university professors, artists, IT specialists, cooks etc. for more information read here), has to come up with a new life style model as an alternative to current multinational control mechanisms. That means trying to define new ways of living without losing the perspective of the whole. In our global society, economic, environmental and political relationships tend be interconnected. An easy solution might not be available. But a first step needs to be the concentration and determination to really change things, for us as western kids, starting in the so called 'developed world'. If we don't act, our societies will face huge internal and international conflicts based on lacking resources, accelerating migration processes and a ridiculous unequal division of wealth.
Governments as lackies
Current 'governments' tend to be the lackies or even puppets of these multinational organised interests, whether they are economical, political or military or a combination of these. Our democracies are not functioning, they are kidnapped by the 'party model', parties that are controlled by big business interests on a global scale. In the U.S.A. you have 2 (!), very similar, parties changing the seats now and then, but changing nothing fundamental, in Europe you have a more parties, but only 2 or 3 govern alternately. Also there that doesn't make much of a difference. The party system is one part of democracy though, new initiatives really taking more care of equal division of power and chances should pop up to prevent it to loose its credibility more and more.
"I prefer to regulate banks instead of passengers"
Political parties fail to articulate people's interests
So, as the so called instruments of democracy, parties don't seem to function properly, now that problems grow. The parties are subjected to an internal and external big struggle which mostly ends up in visionless compromises between dominant interests in society. The 'financial crisis' seems to accelerate deeper lying structural problems in our societies: unequal division of power, initiative, chances etc. combined with exploitation of labour on a growing scale by a handful of financial and multinational mastodonts. But resistance is growing and it seems it is not suppressable anymore by traditional ways of mass media manipulation and state force, as we have entered the digitalised world. The demonstrations, worldwide and on a scale probably only precedented by the anti Iraq war demos, show water is running over the side of the tub while the tap is still running.
The agendas of the multinational corporations
Let's look a bit deeper to the current multinational oil company dominated world. Their interest are protected by governmental armies (like NATO), paid for by tax payers money in the 'rich countries'. Eisenhower already called the intertwining of interests of multinationals with political and military establishments 'the greatest danger to democracy': the Miltary ...
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