Daydreaming Idly
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Even so, it will always be the same possibilities, either in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality over the idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their directions, and he awakens them."
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is done with you."
- David Foster Wallace
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In the Occupy movement, the frustration is palpable, but we have this immense oddity in the political system, which is that disgust at plutocratic rule is widespread and yet the political system blocks it from momentum, from achievement, from full-blooded political expression.
And so, it’s not that Americans, as a whole, are approving of plutocrats and their political interventions, but there has been, to date, no compelling expression of that sentiment. So, this eruption – somewhere between moment and movement, as Marshall Ganz put it – is an upsurge of this throttled majority, or even super-majority, sentiment.
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