I’ve noticed a lot of peeps all over Tumblr saying a range of many different things about the Occupy Movement, some of which are totally justified and true, others are completely fucking bonkers and have no idea of what’s going on and don’t care to learn. That being said, I’m going to answer some common q’s I’m sure many people have about the Occupy Movement.

WHY ARE PEOPLE PROTESTING WHAT ARE THEY PROTESTING?!!?!?

This one really isn’t hard if you just watch “Keith Olbermann Reads The Statement Released by Wall Street Protesters 2011-10-05,” but I’ll tell you anyway. I could go into details here about how much wealth the 1% controls, but it’s not just about that. IT’S NOT! DON’T ACT LIKE IT IS! Everyone with a brain knows that the US sucks right now. Everyone. Many of the people who are at all Occupy movements know that it sucks such a huge amount that there is no amount of work they, their children, their grand children, and their great grand children can do to collectively to fix it. People have just now realized that our system and country is broken and irreparable and they’re upset about it. That, to me, is the basic reason for all Occupy movements. 

WELL WHAT DO THE PROTESTERS WANT TO BE DONE, THEN?!?!?! WHAT’S THE SOLUTION???!?!?

The problem is that there IS no solution!!! Do the Wall St Occupiers REALLY think that everyone who works on Wall St is just going to come out of their offices one morning and say “Oh, I’m so sorry for taking all the money and using it to buy my six houses and diamond encrusted money clip! Here, everyone have a share of my money and we’ll all go home happy!” No. Maybe they’re hoping that that’ll happen, but it won’t. Are corporations just going to stop what they’re doing because we asked nicely? No. Is the government going to stop being corrupt because some people are camping out in public? No. Which leads us to the next question and or observation I’ve been hearing many a time.

THIS IS THE REVOLUTION!!!! IS THIS THE REVOLUTION?!?!?? 

Unfortunately I don’t think it is. I mean, it COULD be, read the quote I included in my last wordy post by Chris Hedges. Revolutions take a fucking minute. And by a fucking minute I mean decades. DECADES, do you understand me? If it took us THIS long to start camping out and Occupying places, how long is it going to take to overthrow the US government??? A long time, right?! A long time. BUT, you can’t have a middle and end without a motherfucking beginning, right? 

Right! This is only the beginning, and beginnings are VERY important!

WELL LYKE WHEN R THINGZ GONNA CHANGE THEN?!?!?!?!?

This answer is the one a lot of people do not want to hear, but it’s true. Things are only going to change once a LOT of people die in order to overthrow the government. Think about it. How strong is our military? How strong is our government? Is the Occupy Movement going to be responsible for OVERTHROWING THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT? No. It is going to take many, many years to overthrow our government and it’s going to take even longer for our country to be at a point of anything that remotely resembles solidarity. Unfortunately you and I probably won’t be alive to see the real revolution happen. I know it sucks to hear but I’m just being real here.

Really soon we’re going to be almost completely out of natural resources. ONLY THEN will EVERYONE stand up and say “Hey! We want to live!” Because that’s what it’s going to take for most Americans. I wish it didn’t have to be at that point. I wish they’d react sooner. And maybe they will, who knows? But that’s where I’m at now, that’s where we’re all at now, and things are going to change for better and for worse.