Lots to see here, Fox News surpassing their usual arse-wipingly low standards to show us just how far from the tree the apple now lies. Look out for the real lowlight at the 3’20″ mark, when Steve Moore pours bonus scorn on one of their less articulate vox poppers. “He wants peace…” sneers Moore, before tailing off and disappearing momentarily down the cul-de-sac of his own deeply repressed self-loathing. PEACE EH?! WOW! That guy must be a TOTAL DOUCHE!
It seems like suddenly I’m posting daily, not sure why that is. Today’s post has kind of written itself through the feeds. It started with word that the OccupyTogether movement now lays claim to 66 ‘occupations’ in America and around the wider world, and is set to touch down at the London Stock Exchange on October 15th.
This is such an immaculate portrait for the times. His American Psycho chic, the reverent zeal in his eyes as he lets us in on his little secret, framed by the astons of BBC News and the bewilderment of its anchors in the face of something approximating reality.
The ebullient indifference to the human dimension of recession, the assumption that all anyone could, should or would want to do in the face of it is turn profit.
This is the guy #OccupyWallStreet is gunning for, him and thousands like him getting their little dicks hard at night thinking about growing unemployment, failing education, unaffordable healthcare.
Remember his face. When things get worse, remember that guys like him are sleeping all the better for it.
[UPDATE 12:47 27/09/2011]Speculation now rife that ‘Rastani’ is actually an invention of the culture-jamming group the Yes Men. If that proves true, I guess the portrait has its artist.
[UPDATE 16:49 27/09/2011] It has been confirmed that Rastani was NOT one of the Yes Men, by the Yes Men. Leaving the rest of us to reflect on the fact that, when a trader broke cover and told us exactly how it is, our first reaction was to presume it satire.
Mainstream media coverage of the #OccupyWallStreet protest currently taking place in the Big Apple has been conspicuously muted thus far. It took the NYPD getting heavy-handed with some protesters at the weekend to bring it into focus for the New York press, and signs are there that the wider world is starting to wake up to this small but by no means insignificant movement. That being the case, these comments by Noam Chomsky couldn’t come at a better time:
