I can’t tell for the life of me how Aaron Gell of the New York Observer was appalled by the level of sophistication, awareness, and/or revolutionary consciousness being shown by those goofy kids up there protesting Wall Street:
“What are you doing here?” we asked.
“Oh, we’re just here, like, you know, protesting what’s going on,” she replied.
“Cool, what specifically?” we asked.
“Everything going on, I mean. Take your pick!”
Her name was Jenna. We secretly hoped she was from Portland.
I mean, you can read it equally easily as being an appalled These kids are making a mockery of our country’s desperate need to put everybody on Wall Street into a giant wicker man and set it on fire in order to appease the incomprehensible Money Demons** or an amused appalled Wow, so this is what it’s like to think “these damn dirty hippies need to go find a real job. Either way works for me, and while I wouldn’t wish the mindset of the former interpretation on my worst enemy I also have zero sympathy for anybody who embraces such a strange and frankly self-destructive worldview on their own***. So, really, win for me either way.
Via Hot Air Headlines, which found the same quote hilarious.
Moe Lane
*Classical reference. One not for the easily-broken; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
**That would be bad, by the way.
***Actually, I perfectly described their basic attitude. It’s not my fault that your average Lefty antiglobo idiot isn’t creative enough to properly articulate their True Vision of Utopia…
“giant wicker man”
With Tim Geithner shouting, “NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES!”?