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My name is Douglas Rushkoff
I am humbled and honored to be amplified by your voices.

You are not fighting against people, but against a machine.
It was put in place over 500 years ago.
By a wealthy elite - trying to repress a booming peer to peer economy.
Those people are all dead, but their program lives on.

They invented an operating system called central currency.
People who used to trade directly,
were now forced to borrow money from the king's bank.
At interest.

The elite also invented software for that operating system.
It was called the chartered monopoly. Today we call it the corporation.

It is a program designed to extract value.
It has legal monopoly over its industries.
We are legally prohibited from creating and exchanging value
unless we do it through the corporation.
We cannot work unless we have a "job."

We outsource our work, we outsource our savings, we outsource our borrowing, we outsource our investing - all instead of sourcing one another.

This 13th Century, printing-press era operating system
is incompatible with a 21st Century economy.
It is broken and dying. But it is still occupying our reality.

Too many are mistaking this operating system - for the way things are.
They see the Occupy Movement as the impediment.
No.
We are not asking for wealth to be redistributed.
We are asking for the redistribution to STOP.

The Long Extraction is Over.

The peer to peer society is back.
We are ready to create and exchange value as people.

They say that the Occupy Movement has no leadership.
They are wrong.
You are the leaders

The rest of us are your followers.
What you do here - shows what we can do out there.

You are the classroom - we are the students

You are the experiment - we are the results.

You are the proposition - we are the resolution.

If you can sleep under tarps
the rest of us can tell your story to our children at bedtime

If you can resist the cops.
The rest of us can resist the market and the mall

If you can live on shared food
The rest of us can buy and grow local crops

If you can live with no money
The rest of us can start using alternative currencies

If you can stand firm in the streets
The rest of us can stand firm in our foreclosed homes
and stand with our neighbors in theirs.

If you can occupy Zucotti Park
The rest of us can occupy reality.

And by that same logic:
As the nights get colder,
as the Mayor grows less tolerant,
or as the police get more violent,

Remember that you have already won.

Whatever happens in this square,
the day you leave is not the day you have lost
it is not the day you have surrendered.

It is the day you have spread out.
It is the day you have declared a bigger battlefield.
It is the day you teachers and we students become the same.

It is the day we Occupy the World.

To me this is just a Rushkoff guerilla marketing commercial for the Rushkoff corporation, and that is OK because he means well is not showing any major signs of corruption or evil, unlike most of our major corporations ... but that does not make what he says right. I find the history of corporations interesting, but personally do not think money or corporations are not the problem - criminals and corruption is the problem. Right now the problem is that the problem is so big and "mental" that we cannot get a hold of it, so arguing about the problem or conspiracies is academic.

Rushkoff is a poster child of the 1% - Princeton graduate, an academic who has done little but publish books with wild ideas which will never be implemented, but are interesting to read for entertainment. I read "Life Inc" and "Program or be Programmed" by the way. I don't mean to knock Rushkoff here, well maybe a little.

OWS is inherently unstable and can fall towards any number of destructive directions, being overcome with uneducated people is one, but mistaking fun or entertainment or just someone making a living for a solution is another. The other side has think tanks and brillaint people to analyze and strategize how to dominate the world, it is their main effort. The 99% just have votes and their bodies, both of which seem to be easy to discount - even to the 99% themselves.

What we need are basic steps that most people can agree on that are concrete and implementable. Throwing away all the law and trying to tilt at corporations and the world supply and distribution chains seem well, just a way to keep people arguing about irrelevancies.

One thing I notice - or wonder about - is how all the usual suspects show up, make presentations, talk and then leave, keeping up a public front and making what is a commercial appearance. Do any of these people, these movers and shakers ever talk to each other, ever get involved and connect with each other to find what they can agree on and then do something?

It's great to hear what everyone things, but having clever ideas that are entertaining to listen to are the lifeblood of this class of people, just as manipulating government and the economic system is the lifeblood of the elite that has caused all of this mess.

When does the country hit one something else to do beside passively listen and be entertained by peolpe, and little by little be drained of their money and time by being bounced from one idea to the next that never connects or crystalizing into something productive or powerful enough to change anything?

I would really appreciate if a "studio" version of the speech could be read by Rushkoff, instead of having to listen to every word twice.

Apart from this, I really can't help but smile when I see Occupying movements all over the world using exactly the same marketing strategy imposed to them by Corporations for decades, making themselves all similar and therefore more vulnerable.

Diversity is strength.