Why am I still blogging?

Okay, so sooner or later, someone's going to ask this, if they haven't already.

"Phil, why are you still blogging about this?"

I mean..I left Occupy. I'm not longer encamped, and the encampment itself is pretty well shut down. The movement doesn't look like its going anywhere either.

So, then why am I still blogging about it?

Well, someone has to offer a counter-point to the Raging Stupid that has been swirling around..and someone has to tell it as it is. That's not exactly going to make me a ton of friends, and will probably cut off a few if it hasn't already. Well....so what? That and when certain things pop up that I feel very personally about..especially folks being self-righteous, being con artists...and hiding behind labels and causes simply to perpetuate their own brand of self-idealized bullshit (which is always the one, true way..unless you're the enemy of course.).......I just can't stay silent about it.

People stay WAY too silent about things. When the government started to go crap end up, people were silent. They ignored it. They said it would go away, or it would sort itself out. It didn't. Enough people got pissed off about it not just here..but all over the world..that the Occupy movement sprang up to give a visible indicator of our discontent. We recognized that things had been allowed to go on long enough and we decided to get up, do something about things..and figure out the rest along the way.

A few months in and we never bothered to figure anything out. It became more about the individual causes people wanted to pursue..with little actual unity. It was all in how the media would portray it and how good they would look for the camera..and what the history books might think. The original concept of doing something bigger than ourselves was left by the wayside. When our occupiers were braving the elements..those from the outside visiting the GAs and largely deciding policy seemed to figure that arguing about language and how things sounded was greatly more important than whether or not we would catch pneumonia, have enough to eat..or not freeze during the winter.

And lets not even get into that joke of what they called feminism but was anything but. Its been covered enough already. Chris wrote an AWESOME blog that talks about it in detail, from a woman's point of view. *Unlike* Dixie, Chris (a lady, not a guy, by the way.) has actually been on the Plaza for quite some time and was part of the security/good vibes team more than one occasion. So..she would kind of know what she's talking about. You won't hear it from Dorsey...because Dorsey never spent a night on the plaza, and seldom spent more than an hour on it aside from the GAs. Same with Eli. Mostly the same with Eva..since she was in and out and when she WAS in no one wanted to put up with her self-serving ways. (Most folks stop being about 4 years old right around their 5th year. F'sure.)
Dar? Off and on the plaza. Honestly, I'm still kinda torn about Darlene..she has her good moments..and then she has those moments where you're like "WTF?!" and holy hell, back off before she goes nuts.
I *want* to believe better about these folks..but they never seem to help their own case.

The point? They're the ones that largely are saying that there's this huge problem on the Plaza with female abuse and harassment...and there's no way *any* of them would really know it. Are they psychic? Do they have hidden cams picking this up some how? (Which..I doubt because it would get out sooner or later. Keep in mind the way they pat themselves on the back the moment they think they have something. They just can't contain themselves to keep something secret and off to the side.)

Which is another reason for blogging this, since they want to throw my blog link all over the place. I want people referred here to understand that there are some folks that are seriously screwed up in the head, that claim to be one thing..but really, its all about them...and its all about another war, another fight..and how good they can make themselves look in the process.

People...its like this. THINK FOR YOUR DAMN SELVES. Use your brain. Think rationally. Don't just stop questioning because you know the person, or think they are a good person, or they paint themself to be the next big super crusader of (insert cause here.)...that's how people get used, played, and eventually cast aside. That is how this crap continues over and over again, be it in a movement or in a government. DO NOT turn a blind eye to things. DO NOT bury your head in the sand and assume it will just go away. Don't just take someone's word for it. Do not just agree. Do not just disagree. Have an actual reason behind your words and your feelings. Don't be a follower. We have too many of those already, and the jury is out as to whether or not they've already screwed things up for the rest of us past the point of no return. Hopefully, that isn't the case..but we don't need more adding to it.

Problems DO NOT fix themselves. NO ONE is going to fix your problems for you. You have to get off your ass, take responsibility..and get it done yourselves. THEN, as real leaders, move together and sweep the world off its hinges..and make itself something cool. Don't just be silent because someone may not like something you say. Who cares? You can't change the world by sticking your head in the sand, that just puts you one step closer to under the ground.

I don't know how many more of these blogs i'll end up writing. I had hoped to stop looong, long ago. I know that I'll have different blog for spirituality, and likely for creative projects as well. I *had* been hoping that this one would have largely been more positive than it turned out to be...but at the very least, someone else can learn from the mistakes that we made and the bullshit that we allowed, so maybe they'll have an easier time. Who knows. In the end, though, someone SHOULD chronicle things that was actually there...which, I was. I was there. I saw it, I have a great memory..and i'm sure about now more than one person was wishing I didn't. I'm pretty sure more than one person either is, or should be ashamed of themselves..but that's on them, no real concern to myself.

So, onward we go. Now ya know.