Keith Olbermann reads a message from Occupy Milwaukee

I watched this today and was fascinated and impressed with what was said.  I almost found myself cheering at the computer screen because the message was effective, important, and delivered eloquently.

Keith is simply a messenger using his news program to share Occupy Wall Street’s message across the United States and around the world.  Occupy’s message simply explains how the people and the Earth are being exploited by the richest 1% of Americans.  There are corrupt processes going on across business and government that are unfair and destructive to the American people.  I’m glad this was said on national TV.  Keith Olbermann has always been my guy; he says what is right and he has no financial stake in what he reports.  He seeks truth, justice and equal opportunity and I appreciate that he reports on Occupy so diligently.

Earlier today I also heard this song on Radio Milwaukee 88Nine.  It seemed to represent a personal American perspective that many of us can relate to.

It’s upsetting that so many of us “barely get by”.  People are unemployed and on food stamps, just trying to survive in America but the stress constantly builds.  We work more than ever and are forced to be consumers to support an unrealistic standard of living and our leisure time is spent watching TV or drinking to forget about our shitty jobs.  In my last post there’s a picture of a baby with a sign that says “Slavery?” and sometimes it makes me wonder if today’s capitalist/consumer society has become a form of slavery.  We have to work to buy and we have to buy to live.  And I guess it just upsets me that some people don’t notice these things.  Many Americans don’t think anything is wrong.

Here in America, people value opinions.  Each of us thinks we deserve one, and we often disagree with each others.  I’m not sure why it’s a political issue whether to take care of each other or not.  An advanced society would systematically and scientifically support all the worlds’ people.  But humans are greedy.  I heard the philosophical question recently: Is the human race is able to be humane?  I think that addressing the power-hungry American capitalist-consumer society is a start but we really have to make some intellectual and humanistic advances as a people if we want to continue to exist peacefully and prosperously on this planet.  We will certainly deplete our planet’s natural resources or divide into class warfare if American greed does not slow.  It starts on Wall Street.  It starts by occupying public space to get attention.  The coverage starts to pose the important questions and the 1% will have to acknowledge a financially suffering American people.  This message on Keith Olbermann’s show is an important clip and a hopefully Americans will try this perspective.

There’s a lot going on out there,

-Nicky D