If one more person asks me what the OWS is all about..

[HipChick]

I am going to puke...

Really, they know all the little details of a singer/rapper love life, or latest event on a soap opera, but have no clue about something with directs impacts their life...

[rustydog]

1. I think it is proof they have to be told what to believe

Almost all of the "lamestream" media seems to downplay the significance and keep saying: "There is no leader, what is their message, what do they want?"

Most Rush-fed people do not know what to believe because the Right has not told them what to believe. yet.

[vets74]

10. We are our own leaders. We are against CORPORATE CORRUPTION. We want real jobs.

How hard is that ? From NYC's OWS:



The mortgage scams and pension fund scams stole $7-trillion. Corporate crime is the problem. Not individual, corporate.

[lunatica]

2. They're deliberately obtuse

and in time they'll be deeply embarrassed to have been truly obtuse while they were at it.

[hfojvt]

3. so what is the OWS all about?

:evilgrin:

[JohnnyRingo]

4. *snicker*

I get the big pieces.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. On the positive side... it is better to have them ask us what it is all

about instead of telling us it's about dirty hippies wanting their way paid for. And circulating that ridiculous photograph pointing out all of the "corporate products". :)

[Journeyman]

6. You don't really sound like. . .

you'd be a good spokesman anyway.

"What is the aim of (knowledge)?: One must study in order to remould one's thinking. . . to foster one's revolutionary virtues. . . . Study is aimed at action: the two must go hand in hand. The former without the latter is useless. The latter without the former is hard to carry through." ~ Ho Chi Minh

[pipi_k]

14. No shit!

I have a condition that's been around a lot longer than OWS has.

If a hundred...a thousand...people are interested enough to ask me what it is, and what it's about, then I'm going to be thrilled to explain it to every one of them!

[woo me with science]

7. Give them this link.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1#ixzz1alvBswkW

[theaocp]

8. Ignorance is bliss. n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Tell them the live feed is a reality show.

[RevStPatrick]

11. Aw, c'mon! Don't be that way!

Use it as an opportunity to educate them.
Maybe you can help these people to wake up.
Look at it as your responsibility not as a pain in the ass.
You might be surprised at how many lives you can touch by being cheerful and helpful and saying the right thing at the right moment to help open someone's eyes...

[pipi_k]

12. Hey, whatever...

Give the person an attitude and sneer at him/her for being interested enough to ask. That will attract people to your cause. :eyes:


Or accuse him/her of being (as someone stated above) "deliberately obtuse" (which, IMO, is just a high-handed way of saying, "I don't know any more than the person asking the question does, so I'll just accuse him/her of being willfully stupid to cover up my own inability to explain adequately").

[HipChick]

15. Actually I told them they were being wilfully ignorant..

and I was accused of being mean...

I guess they need to go back to worry if Demi is going to divorce Ashton or something

[whistler162]

13. The Orville and Wilbur Society of course!

[elias7]

16. Tell them this:

Decisions about America's future should be consistent with the will of ordinary people and in the best interests of the public good.