11/5/2011

11/5/2011, Saturday

Weather stunning, 70 degrees.

Occupy rally in Oak Park, the first one. [Listen to Audio] The pathos and anger are palpable at most rallies, but you still have to make a concerted effort to see the real issues amid the noise of grievances. One speaker goaded people to close their Chase accounts and asked for a show of hands—one person—an older woman.

The thing I find most interesting about OWS rallies are the layers of generations.

Andy Rooney dead at 92. He was a part of the generation that reaped the benefits, comforts and entitlements of post-WWII America. And now here we are...

[11/5/2024: 2011 was an inflection point in retrospect. This is when the temperatures really started to go up. It was also when Millennials born in the early 90s came of age and were taking to the streets–just as Boomers born in 1950 were taking to the streets in 1968. That’s when you realize how the world really is and always was. The passing of Quincy Jones at 91 evokes the same nostalgia for "better" times].