This week the Occupy movement–which officially began with massive
street protests and a kaleidoscopic Zuccotti Park encampment in New York
City’s Financial District as “Occupy Wall Street” on September 17 last
year–marked its first birthday.
Well, some want to call it a “birthday,” assuming there will be many more to come, like the yearly celebration of the growth of a headstrong child. Most seem content to call it an “anniversary,” more of a nod to a one-time event, frozen in a particular moment, like a trippy fossil.
No doubt the mainstream news angle is hewing to the latter version, producing a bevy of laments like ”Occupy Wall Street: a Frenzy That Fizzled,” a New York Times commentary by Andrew Ross Sorkin, which gleefully but “delicately” announces that the entire movement was “a fad.” Other headlines are less colorful, in fact, pretty monochromatic in tone, indulging in some version of “Occupy Wall Street In Doubt As Movement Celebrates One-Year Anniversary,” which was exhorted by the Huffington Post on Sunday, alongside “A Year Later, Occupy Has Lost it’s Oomph,” by the Washington Post, or, “A Year On, Occupy Movement Hunts for Ways to Stay Relevant,” the Post’s online version of the same story. Meanwhile on Monday, the Detroit Free Press asked “Occupy Wall Street movement: Spent after first year?” before the morning’s Wall Street bell even had the chance to ring.
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/occupying-a-footnote-to-history/
Well, some want to call it a “birthday,” assuming there will be many more to come, like the yearly celebration of the growth of a headstrong child. Most seem content to call it an “anniversary,” more of a nod to a one-time event, frozen in a particular moment, like a trippy fossil.
No doubt the mainstream news angle is hewing to the latter version, producing a bevy of laments like ”Occupy Wall Street: a Frenzy That Fizzled,” a New York Times commentary by Andrew Ross Sorkin, which gleefully but “delicately” announces that the entire movement was “a fad.” Other headlines are less colorful, in fact, pretty monochromatic in tone, indulging in some version of “Occupy Wall Street In Doubt As Movement Celebrates One-Year Anniversary,” which was exhorted by the Huffington Post on Sunday, alongside “A Year Later, Occupy Has Lost it’s Oomph,” by the Washington Post, or, “A Year On, Occupy Movement Hunts for Ways to Stay Relevant,” the Post’s online version of the same story. Meanwhile on Monday, the Detroit Free Press asked “Occupy Wall Street movement: Spent after first year?” before the morning’s Wall Street bell even had the chance to ring.
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/occupying-a-footnote-to-history/
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