What is needed is a new paradigm of disrespect for the banker, the financier, the One Percenter, a new civic space in which he is openly reviled, in which spoiled eggs and rotten vegetables are tossed at his every turning. What is needed is a revival of the language of vigorous old progressivism, wherein the parasite class was denounced as such. What is needed is a new Resistance. We face, as Hessel describes, a system of social control “that offers nothing but mass consumption as a prospect for our youth,” that trumpets “contempt for the least powerful in society,” that offers only “outrageous competition of all against all.”

“The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.” ~Mark Twain

Written by Christopher Ketcham before the Occupy movement:

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6470/