A Series of Tubes

Everyone at the GSC occupation should read “Awareness” (thanks Ben).  It describes perfectly the goals of the occupiers of the graduate student commons.

Having recently read the fliers of the occupiers I would suggest that if any of them are taking courses this quarter, they should sign up for a writing course.  The ideas presented bounce around and lack a coherent central theme or argument.  Occupy everything?  By existing you are occupying some space so I guess mission accomplished there.  The fliers suggest that the obvious course of action from observing a murder on BART, the North Pacific Gyre, layoffs at UCSC, and low wages for central American Immigrants is to go to a system that doesn’t use Capital (Communism) and a system that has no central governing structure (Anarchy).   So to sum up the position of the occupiers:  There are problems in the world including a murder on BART, the solution to these problems is to completely remake society based on Anarchy and Communism, and the means to this end is to lock yourself and your buddies in the Graduate Student Commons.  That argument could use a few revisions as it can be best described as the ramblings of someone that is bat shit insane.  To the undergrads participating in the occupation please take a look at the writing courses offered at UCSC:

http://reg.ucsc.edu/catalog/html/programs_courses/writCourses.html

Of particular interest to the occupiers would be one of the many rhetoric courses and perhaps the argument and practical reasoning course.

So on Friday the occupiers had some sort of dance party:

video from (http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/ucsc-occupation-dance-dance-revolution/)

Come for the dance party.   Stay for the poorly reasoned occupation and high school level communist propaganda.

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Update:  Pop quiz for those of you following the occupation… Who or what is the greatest orater to live?  give up?

It’s Apple’s text to speech program!  The occupiers appear to have figured this out and are exploiting its wondrous persuasive melodies by piping the program through the speakers attached to the balcony.  Think of what the great political movements in history could have accomplished if they could only channel their speeches outlining their vision through the glorious voice of apple’s text to speech program.  If you are wondering what a speech from apple’s text to speech program sounds like then I’ll save you the effort to search for a video.  It has the sound of the entire Capitalist society crumbling down as Communism and Anarchy gloriously rising organically from the roots that the people, better known as the occupiers, have planted.  Any fears I might have that the oncoming revolution was in fact the unrealistic pipe dream of an irrational group was quickly put to rest by the inspiring words of a monotone electronic man’s voice.  Viva la Revolution!