As you can see, I am having difficulty understanding. Err, explaining? No, it’s justifying the occupy movement. NO, It IS understanding. I want to understand, so I find myself analyzing the movement.
Perhaps it is grief. I mean could grief be a driving force for this occupy movement today?
That could explain to an extent the desperation, anger, attempt to to bargain and debate a better situation.
In the book Death and Dying, Ross explained the five stages of the grief process as
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
Could this movement, Occupy Wallstreet be a bunch of folks that for a generation has been coasting? Through unrealistic ideals, choices, gambles, some enabling perhaps? And keeping with this grief theory I am developing here. The ride has been over and its time to peddle. But the grief over the loss of a wonderful ride has some of us sort of stuck for the moment in a state between anger and bargaining.
Heck, throw in some denial.
So, with that angle in mind, I must confess that I feel much less contempt and consider more how I treat these people. Widows and orphans after all. I feel more confident that these folks will get tired of what is not working and get to a point of acceptance and then peddle.
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