Some of you may have been following media coverage of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests in NYC and the shoot-offs in other cities, including Providence.

Hoards of people have started to literally live on public property as they protest the current conditions of corporate America and the financial system, as it exists in a post-financial-crisis world. They are mostly young people and they have been protesting now for many weeks, searching for redress from faceless corporations for a slew of offenses as numerous as the people protesting.

They have been starting to get some media coverage for their cause, but until very recently, they haven’t had a cohesive message or even a collective gripe, except for the fact that they’re angry.

This past weekend the group reacted to the media’s characterization of the protest having no clear objective and released a “declaration”. You can read it here.

This declaration and some of the video reporting that has been done on the web and in traditional media, paint a picture of a group of rebels without a clue. This is a movement without an end game.

No demands, no ideas, no solutions, just expressions of anger and frustration. Most of which is perceived and really not based in reality.

Take this excerpt from the preamble of the “decaration”:

            “As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.”

Notice the statement is all about feelings. The gathering is all about expressing them and as long as you “feel” wronged, even though you might not actually be, you’re welcome to be part.

If you listen to the interviews done with some of the protestors, they will explain that they feel this and they feel that. Never once offering a THOUGHT or fact-based argument.

This is the result of a generation worth of social engineering that has focused on expression of feelings being just as valuable in society as actual change or results.

These people really think that just by showing up and showing their anger that things will change.

The United States of America was created by men who were educated in the classics. Who learned about politics and philosophy by reading books and critically thinking about what they learned, and applying it to the lives they lived.

They saw transgressions, knew what those transgressions were, and formulated an action plan to deal with them. Ideas were debated with reason and eloquence.

This generation sits around complaining about corporations, while they blog about it on their corporate created computer or smartphone. They started this movement on Facebook and Twitter, two corporate giants that made this whole thing possible.

They don’t even know who they’re really upset with, as they blame corporate influence on our government, which is really the fault of the elected officials who have betrayed the people in favor of big money.

This “movement” won’t be going anywhere because it’s too busy chasing its tail. A protest movement with no leader and no objective is an army with no mission and no General.

The unholy alliance between our government and big business is one of the biggest issues our generation has to face. We must make sure that we don’t throw the baby out with the bath water when we’re deciding what to do about it.

However, the most important thing we need to do is to KNOW WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT and what our THOUGHTS are about it.

A group of people sitting around emoting is both self indulgent and useless. The only time it might be useful in human existence is at a funeral. Last I checked we’re not dead yet.