Adbusters: TACTICAL BRIEFING #27 - STRATEGIC RETHINK

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Who controls Occupy? The movement has been successful because it is divorced from personalities, godmen and women who would direct its outcome, only to bring it down later when they are discovered to be mortals - the endless clown show of politics as we know it. So for each individual involved, there is an almost spiritual direction in not even dreaming of being a leader of it, but finding fulfillment in being a part. Its about the rejection of all the illusions that keep politics so dumb, the rejections of cults of personalities and the idea that elites get everything done (the fundamental illusion of the 1%) and the embrace of the truth that normal people working hard, doing their part, make the world go round.

As far as adbusters, the issue is that some prominent media sources are playing up that role. Adbusters has a lot to contribute in terms of good ideas with resistance to mindless consumerism, but the fundamental idea must not be challenged:

There is no elite 1% of protesters who direct the rest, of that we can all be sure.

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