How Occupy Wall Street Illustrates Left and Right Philosophies

I’ve been trying to decide if I had any thoughts worth blogging about the whole Occupy Wall Street protest thing. The general consensus is that they’re not really sure what their goals are but it’s something about “corporate greed” and perhaps something about the disproportionate influence of major corporations on our legislative process. I don’t feel like picking at the low-hanging fruit of the most hypocritical protestors or digging into whether or not there’s hypocrisy in the news coverage or speculating about whether or not they will become the “tea party of the left” or trying to analyze the nuances of the different kinds of protests and how many people got arrested and how long they were there and all that.

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