And I will add to it one more thing, equally accurate, and perhaps less well understood. No one has won their freedom without at least the threat of force as the cudgel compelling the attention of the oppressor. Not King. Not Ghandi. No one. King and Ghandi won using non-violence because, for the elite, it was preferable to the very real violence that was waiting in the wings as an alternative.
I am not advocating violence here or anywhere. Having experienced it I do not wish it upon anyone. I am merely reflecting on reality -- one of those truths we don't talk about.
But if you wonder why Wall Street wasn't impressed by drum circles that's the answer. When the elite are relaxing over cocktails and congratulating themselves on their mastery of the world, five million drum circles does not command the attention of, for example, a single alternative cocktail. They don't care about people protesting them, they think it's hillarious. And why wouldn't they -- you're beating drums and they're emptying your checkling account and getting fat on taxpayer dollars. They're sipping champaigne and passing the Gray Poupon while the police break your skull and haul you off on trumped up charges.
It's tragic that it so often comes to this, but there it is. If you want to stop, say, the Keystone Pipeline, fifty guys with hammers and pipe wrenches are worth fifty thousand with signs and drums crying for the environment.
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