Getting people all in one place is amazingly hard
I don't pay any attention to local news, owing to its shameful neglect of K-pop, so it didn't dawn on me until about four days ago that there was an Occupy Denver. The weather's been mostly nice, and it's only a 25-minute walk from my apartment to Civic Center Park, where they hang out.
I feel a bit hypocritical for not getting involved, since I'm the one who strenuously insists that the major flaw of my musicwrite world is its unwillingness to focus and follow through: that the people in it don't know how to sustain an intellectual conversation and are totally unable to comprehend the need to persist on a topic, return to unanswered questions, develop rudimentary thoughts, work to understand someone's ideas, communicate their own, etc. Not that I expect anyone at Occupy Denver to do better or accomplish much of anything. But I doubt they'll do any harm. And as Mark said in WMS #13, getting people all in one place is amazingly hard, much less with at least the illusion of moving all in one direction, and persisting. So I may drop by, today or tomorrow, just to see.