Well, they TRIED to create a faux American Revolution in their own image...

[Dover]

but the thing about manufactured 'faux' movements (are you listening propagandists and 'brand' marketers?) is that they just have a hollow
sound to them rather than tolling with a sympathetic resonance that vibrates in the hearts of people. We might not recognize them right away, but
faux movements have a short shelf life. And this is the case with the Tea Party....created by the corporations, for the corporations
to divert and direct the rising public outrage and angst toward some political entity or the government in general...the institution they are hell bent on destroying... rather than at themselves (actually one and the same thing, these days) and corral it into a more controllable, divisive political bullpen.
I'm delighted to discover, through OWS and other experiences, that we are undergoing a kind of evolutionary leap in our developing ability to distinguish, intuit and trust these sometimes subtle discrepancies between what is 'real', true and what is false....even as they ramp up the sophistication of their propaganda machines and K-street, android-driven movements. I know for me that when something doesn't 'ring true' there is this inner sound, like the dull clank of a clapper hitting the sides of a broken bell. And on an intelligence level there is a cognitive dissonance where what is proposed does not synch with some inner truth meter.

Those of you who watched the video of activist Arundhati Roy's commentary on the OWS movement in the States, posted here at DU the other day.
may have heard her speak to this during the question and answer period at the end of her talk. She said there is a movement in India that is something
like the Tea Party in that it seems to have been created by the corporations in an attempt, perhaps, to steer the inevitable rising unrest
of the poor into a revolution that THEY (the corporations) would define and control.
So in a sense they co-opted the movement before it even WAS a movement. And yes, there were those among the poor who followed in hopes it would change their situation, but it was all very manipulative, leading them to think the system was salvagable if only they moved the furniture around a bit, so to speak.

If anyone is interested in hearing her firsthand it's in the last quarter(around 21 minutes) in the Q&A part at the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sZrlCr9NwM

[aletier_v]

1. "evolutionary leap in our developing ability to distinguish, intuit"

It's the Internet.

For myself, I noticed many years ago.

I learned to hear the "ring of truth" in text-based comments.

I touched the Internet in 1988, and felt the power, and built my first network in 1991.

But I never dreamed that distributed systems would create this much social change.

[Fumesucker]

2. 300 baud to DSL baby..

I could read the text screens faster than the modem would get them..

[Dover]

4. I have no idea what that means...lol.

[Dover]

3. That IS a good skill. I know I've struggled with that one because my

reading of people was and still is very dependent on tone, body language, and their 'vibe', which has much harder to discern on the internet.
The internet engaged my mind but was too disembodied for a holistic 'reading'. My heart was left out of the interaction too, or didn't quite
feel authentic.

[formercia]

5. People are activating their Bullshit-o-Meters

The great awakening.