Deconstructing the Occupy Wall Street Question.

Please read this if you are a supporter of Occupy Wall Street and you are frustrated about the fact that people keep asking, "What is the purpose? What is the point? What do they want to accomplish? Why are they protesting Wall Street and not the Government?"

Please read this if you are a supporter who is sick and tired of hearing people say, "Their message is not clear. They don't know what they are talking about. They all have too many different ideas of what they want. They aren't going to accomplish anything."

Actually, they have a purpose, they have a point, they have already accomplished what they wanted to accomplished and all of that explains why they are protesting Wall Street and not the Government. Also, their message is clear, they know exactly what they are talking about, and the fact that there are many ideas is the whole point. Like I said, they have accomplished everything they set out to accomplish.

Please, repeat the above paragraph out loud ten times.

The explanation is simple:

Their purpose is to occupy Wall Street and rally the people of the United States.

The point is to put pressure on Wall Street by bringing them unwanted attention to force the public to accept and become vocal about the problems our country because of the actions of Wall Street rather than ignore it all.

They wanted to accomplish this and they did.

Government has already been the target for these problems for the past 10 years and targeting them has not brought any changes. Occupy Wall Street instead brings attention to the problem rather than the discussion about the problem.

This message is clear. Occupy Wall Street. Occupy. Occupy. Occupy. Wall Street. Wall Street. Wall Street.

Everyone in this movement knows that they are talking about Wall Street.

They are supposed to have too many ideas, because there is not one simplistic problem. it is an entirely complex problem complicated by a complex system.

And they have accomplished so much. They didn't just occupy Wall Street; they occupied the world.

The Reddit Enterprise

I am involved on Reddit's political forum in a typical manner: argumentative comments on /r/politics. Posting large quantities of comments that have seemingly no purpose other than to irritate is now a regular practice. Whether it is through my phone on the way to work or in my office at home, I make sure that certain people feel miserable about the things they say.

Many would ask why it is important to me. Many ask for my intention. I will let you figure that out.

My method is simple. If I find a hole in someone's argument, I exploit it and only that. The intention is not to defend any particular argument, but to undermine someone's argument by poking intentionally through an indefensible hole in their logic, knowledge, or self-esteem.

I do not make these pokes with immature language or hate in my words. I use a bit of passive language sometimes to extend the word count to increase the "loftiness" of my appeal. I try to seem overly confident, simple, and straight forward. I use the words "fact", "reality", and "simply" a lot. I focus on as little else as possible other than the thread I intend to cut. I slice ever so extremely at my opponent in this way and I can topple their argument and throw them immediately into a weak, defenseless position. Most respondents have no problem giving away their entire offensive platform to defend themselves and thus fall apart in hopes of defending their flag without a fort.

If they wanted to defeat me, they would need to simply admit their wrong and reiterate their point without the flaw. Yet, it is hard for them to smoothly reiterate a point that is based on a hole in their logic. They want to defend everything, because they don't really understand what they're arguing about. They're just used to arguing, and as the internet goes, they only know how to argue against everything. I doubt they can even correctly pinpoint their hypothesis.

Many people who I target have such a considerable hole in their logic. I promise you, it is not hard to notice once you know the criteria. I have gotten so precise that I have even driven people to delete their posts or change them if my response makes them look stupid enough.

But, there is a purpose behind all of this. I do have an intention. And I do have a particular target audience.

I am the 99%.