Trolled by a corporate drone


In case you haven't noticed, the revolution has begun. The resistance, slowly building up momentum at least since September 2001, has entered the next stage, it's gone viral on the streets. Australia, like expected, still struggles a bit, but at least Melbourne and Sydney look like making a promising start.

The derision of drones keeps the October movement alive as talking point, and as yet, many haven't even noticed what is brooding on this planet. In New York, the systematic police brutality contributed to a steady growth, as maybe in London and Berlin. In social networks, ignorance of politics still dominates the lived idea of political correctness.

So how does the establishment try to control the situation? First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win. Ignorance worked amazingly well, it took me three weeks after Wall Street's occupation to notice it, from an entirely unexpected source.

So while the spin doctors still insist that 911 changed the world, the global occupation movement takes changing the world in their own hands, unnoticed from the corporate media. The sitzfleisch of the movement in New York made them go through the first three phases of the Gandhi quote. Youtube offers plenty of examples of police brutality, while the 'rioting protester' stereotypes doesn't emanate.

In Australia, a headline of The Age dissed a 'rowdy rally', without quoting any 'rowdyness' in the article, instead calling it a 'peaceful protest'. The occupation in City Square continues, which gives me an opportunity for a closer look.

The mainstream-media-matrix has already a well-established mirror in the blogosphere, no vox populi (as dictated by our leaders) addict needs to switch from the Herald Sun into the Well Weird Web - with the Hun as start page you're unlikely to encounter opinions that could enlighten you.

In the US, in the public perception (mass media matrix) the movement made its appearance, yet it shifted in this arena only into the laughing stage, like in most western countries.


While shaking heads and laughing usually suffices to sway a Fox audience, the blogosphere can be a tougher call. I came across 'an advisor of leaders of the world' (synchronicity - I remembered Bill Hicks while looking at this 'blog'). 'Protesting consumer style' deserves some credits, and certainly appeals to a conservative audience.

I wonder if my comment will go through the moderation.

How lame. As long as corporations protect the fruits of human creativity with non-sensical concepts like Intellectual Property people can’t simply build their video-cam to make use of audio-visual global communication, yet this will change soon.

Bereft of the ideologic background of capitalism, electronic networks like the internet belong factually into the realms of common goods. The current occupation movement just counter-acts the occupation of common goods by the 1%.

After all, corporations created none of the products, but creative human beings did. Unlike the losers in the capitalist game plan, the CEOs of the dinosaur corporate world don’t need to struggle for survival. Technology and human know-how created sufficient wealth for every human being to lead a peaceful life, even deluded ‘leaders’.

It’s easy to identify the corporate parts of the protester’s outfit. Besides the tech gear, there might be much more hand-made stuff embellishing the revolutionaries than a corporate hivemind might imagine. Bought on back street markets, made at home, traded without taxes, but with mutual respect.

The 1% have lost the track. Not to use the gear they provide, sometimes exclusively, would be plain stupid. And that’s just the mindset expected from an obedient servant of the 1%.

So what you demonstrated with this picture is easy to summarize:
We will use every tool available for peaceful resistance to bring down the unjust rulers of the world. We know how to use tools for good purpose.