Say, does anyone remember Occupy Wall Street? The hippy-dippy progressive protest movement camping out in urban areas, protesting The Corporations, and attempting to become an early version of the “autonomous zone” insurrections that erupted during the George Floyd riots nine years later.
Occupy mostly died out after a few months, but they did leave behind one legacy: up twinkles. Their debate process relied on hand-signal reactions from within the group rather than natural argumentation, and their decision-making process eschewed any meaningful debate or dissent and instead required “consensus” rather than votes. As a result, very few assumptions ever got challenged — and very little ever got done, except for camping and reports of assaults and thefts.
Well, “Occupy” is back in spirit — at NBC News, at The New York Times, The Atlantic, and every other media outlet that suddenly…
