What to think

compare:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/students-occupy-new-school-building-again/?hp
http://gawker.com/5159003/the-painfully-ridiculous-end-to-the-nyu-revolution

To this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7989919.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_Sit-Down_Strike

Protesting for the sake thereof is not only pointless and stupid, but also insulting and embarrassing. I look at these kids in their Manhattan lofts who are not quite pleased with the $70k a year that their parents are paying for them to play around in the big city for 4-5 years. What are they complaining about you ask? Well the cafateria fro NYU's optional meal plan wont give them all the vegan food they want. And the "student free space" isn't open for them to do quite everything they wanted. Who cares? Go save some money and make your own vegan food, maybe go to some Brooklyn warehouse where you can do whatever you want, or drop out of the capitalist machine and move to some upstate village like Tivoli where scores of ex New yorkers pretend to live the real American dream, where everyone reads Marx and lives off the 'power structure' that treated them like adults for the first time in their miserable lives.

Especially sad is that these are the same kids I lived with on 1395 Lexington, who spend the first $20 dollars of their day smoking weed, and the next $50 eating at restaurants on Delancy, and the next $40 snorting cocaine, followed by another $50 at some shitty bar in the East Village. After wasting a few thousand dollars, and the first 5 weeks of their semester on an seemingly eternal drug binge. They wake up sober for the first time in months only to see that the world wasn't deigned to give them everything they want, and that no one cares about their pointless, and childish complaints. Worst of all, for all the yelling and breaking of things, they wont actually risk anything for their bullshit demands. Worst case scenario the very polite (and much poorer) police detain them for 3 hours and the administration suspends them for a semester, so they can do some bullshit 40 thousand dollar english language study abroad program at a chateau in Italy or a townhouse in London for 2 months, only to return back to their "oppressive" schools next year.

Why is it that these days all the marxist occupiers go to private schools and have corporate parents with million dollar stock options and six figure incomes?

Contrast this with Moldavia, where the protesters are asking for fair elections, entrance in to the EU. (IE liberal western system) And not to lose their sovereignty to a communist hegemon. Why do these kids and the workers who did sit ins at the GM and Dodge plants risk their jobs and often their lives for what they want? Maybe it's because they wanted something just and real, when all these NYU kids wants is bullshit, and their derivative art sucks too.

GM and Chrysler workers have plenty of reasons to be pissed at their upper management for lying to them for 20 years, and running their company, hundreds of thousands of jobs, and my entire home state into the ground. But yet they don't destroy the factory. Everyone in Southeastern Michigan has reasons to be pissed at Kwame Kilpatrick and the Detroit city council for continuously embarrassing us and doing everything they can to seal the fate of what used to be my favorite city as a ghost of the past that will never return. And yet they don't occupy city hall and waste the police force's limited resources and time with petty demands. Maybe these people, most of whom never went to college, are just smarter than the New School/ NYU set. They are certainly more polite.


EDIT: This doesn't apply to all or even most NYU/ NEW SChool students. In fact many of the protesters were at both schools 'occupations' Also Bob Kerry probably should resign. He doesn't have a PhD, which should be a prereq for president of a PhD granting institution. He has also shown failure of leadership, if most of your students and faculty hate you, maybe you should pull a Larry Summers and get paid seven figures to advice some nice Hedge funders for three days a week.