“Down With Gravity!”
13th October 2011
For every OccupyWallStreet participant, there are 20,000 kids in India cramming for a calculus final.
In other words,
- the Indian kids are serious and the squatters on Wall Street are dilettantes looking for a concert ‘rush’.
- Indian kids struggle to get ahead, the Wall Street Squatters struggle to get laid.
- the Indian kids may have bathed today, but it wasn’t in their very own tiled bathroom. The Squatters defecated on police cars. The epitome of kewl.
- The Indians want a chance. The Squatters want a megaphone so they can take turns interrupting.
- The Indians add, or will add, to global productivity. The Squatters will consume.
- Indian kids hope. Squatters hate. Just ask them for the photo-copied list the nice union man gave them.
- Indian kids have been educated. Squatters don’t need no education, at least not one they’re willing to pay for.
- Indian kids study maths and sciences. Squatters major in Queer Dance Theory After the Death of Patriarchy.
- Indian kids dream. Squatters scream.
- Indian kids have learned to persist because life isn’t fair. Squatters are determined to repeal that basic law. “Down With Gravity”.