A Protest or Insanity?

The other day someone posed a question on this site: “How has a series of formless, anarchic street parties gone viral and spread all over America, all over the world?” The answer really is a simple one. And for what I’m about to explain, let us use the Oakland “occupiers” as an example.

We have had vandals breaking into buildings. Groups and gangs painting graffiti on the property of innocents. Fights, firebombs, and physical threats against reporters in the area reporting on the crimes have taken place in Oakland for quite awhile now. There are many more incidents at other “occupy” locations. Such as the alleged rape by occupiers in Cleveland. The dregs of society have taken over the Oakland protest to the point of one police officer going on record as saying, “..it is a scene akin to the Lord of the Flies.”

An Oakland real estate developer, Phil Tagami, had this to say as he was repairing the windows of his office building – to the tune of $8,000 each. “We were armed and that was a deterrent for keeping them from coming into the building. We basically had a stand-off, you could say, until the police came to move the rioters, the provocateurs, the anarchists.” He had stood in the lobby of his newly renovated $50 million office building with a shotgun.

The rioters, oh sorry, the protesters have encouraged people to take off work and skip school in order to protest the economic inequality in this country. Wouldn’t work and school raise them up in equality? They shut down the Port of Oakland and other businesses that caused the city to lose millions of dollars, dollars which also affected their lives.

Oakland Music Director, Michael Fried, said, “this is really a betrayal of the spirit of social change and revolution in the United States.”

And a resident, Angel Levy, who has been caught up in the fray had this to say. “We are about peace. We are about resolving issues. We are not about terrorism.”

There have been numerous reports of the same by police, businessmen, residents, and onlookers all across the country. But like the writer says, “they don’t seem to have a plan, nobody knows exactly what they stand for. What’s the point?” Well, there is no point, it’s a feeding frenzy. What do I mean by a feeding frenzy? Well, let me explain.

The predisposition of the intellectually deficient, or the uneducated, is to follow the lead of a demagogue, such as this country’s unctuous leader. One who incites this type of violence by pander and demagoguery. One who has brought more divisiveness and class warfare to this country than any of his predecessors.

What we have when we combine these two things, an inflamed proletariat and an unctuously vitriolic demagogue, is a predisposition, precipitation, and perpetuation of failed and misleading economic plans. This in itself precipitates and perpetrates a cultural economic malady. Based on this premise we can see we have gone from social and economic malaise, to a protracted social and economic malady ¾ witness the “occupy” protesters around the country.

The occupiers are causing turbulence, agitation, and disturbance in a somewhat sane and civil society. And because of the shear volume of this turbulence, it is overwhelmingly more senior than the harmony of the area. Here we have a confusion and ebbing of sanity.

Sanity is reason, insanity is unreason. Reason in greater quantity, confronting the presence of unreason, would cause reason to prevail. However, reason, when present only in a deficient amount, will be overcome by unreason and all will become chaotic and anarchic. Here we have the “occupy” protesters. The purer the reason the more change of environment will take place. Reason attempting to conquer an overwhelmingly chaotic and anarchic environment will become, in itself, chaotic and anarchic.

Unreason, or insanity, applied to the environment will make it into a chaotic and anarchic environment. Both make the environment act and tend towards death. The larger the group of anarchists the greater the contagion of aberration, thus the growth of the unreasonable.

A highly reasonable group can handle their environment better than an unreasonable one. The unreasonable will ruin the environment they dwell in, whereas the reasonable will enhance it. This is why we have defecation, violence and crime in the cities where the occupiers protest. The attraction to these protesters would be the contagion, whereby the larger the insanity the greater command it has over the reasonable.