October 26, 2011 March
Sometimes I wish I were alive when the tactics of past movements were effective. I wish I could hear drums and gaze down the avenue to see a large crowd through the haze and believe that through this the ideals of morality and our country were upheld. Lately, it seems as though they do not. I looked at the fascination of joining causes. Popularized by just pressing a button to say if you like something, or retweet facts, is activism complete without the actions of active people? There’s a tourism like trance that occurs when I see people taking pictures of a march that I’ve attended, or at tents of the unemployed. Sympathizing is a feeling, not an action.
Now our society is tucked into an internal battle of maintaining the American Dream they have already attained, and the desire to become what brought it about in the first place. Fingers are pointed but the untouchables remain that way and the mob is relying on them to feel what they feel. But they’re part of the same cycle. So should they sacrifice what we could never attain?
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