November 21, 2011 - 11:28am
Do they really believe they are going to effect corporate and banking regulatory reform? Do they really think they are going to influence America's foreign policy? Can they truly believe that their nocturnal encampments will somehow erase income disparity and bring about a utopia of "economic justice?"
As the fecklessly comedic Occupy Louisville drones on into its third month, we pause to reflect upon the failed philosophy that undergirds the unfocused, leaderless (some would say, pointless) “movement.” We refer, of course, to that cognitively dissonant liberal habit of mind...