If No One Takes You Seriously, Try Dressing Like a Zombie

pic credit: Foxtongue via Flickr (Zombiewalk Vancouver, 2005)

God, it just gets better, doesn't it?

Sick of being branded as distracted dirty hippies with drums, the

kids have come up with a genius plan to really get folks to understand they are serious.

Everyone come dressed as a corporate zombie! This means jacket and tie if possible, white face, fake blood, eating monopoly money, and doing a slow march, so when people come to work on Monday in this neighborhood they see us reflecting the metaphor of their actions. Tell your friends, Facebook it, Twitter it, and it can be MJ Thriller-style too! Create a different image than police brutality!

Really? I'm pretty sure the corporate zombies will not get the joke considering it's hard to reflect them when you're a 22-year-old in green face paint covered in fake blood with no job and they are working professionals trying to get by in this awful world of ours.

Gawker had a more helpful suggestion for the protesters:

You guys should all put on spotless tailored suits, slick back your hair, and march around Zuccotti Park in neat rows, shouting into cell phones about your investments. That would make a statement, and also shut up all the ”dirty stinky hippie”-haters, at least for a day or so.

Right! How about those piece of shit CDOs, motherfucker!?!

Denninger is calling the "movement" communism

but labels like that will quickly get any argument dismissed... is he wrong? What else do you call a group of people who demand higher education as a human right?

That there is no "cohesive set of demands" may be a good thing, if it's real. The problem is that I'm not sure this is the case. Among some of the "looney tunes" demands I've heard include:

A $20/hour minimum wage.

The right to receive it irrespective of whether you work.

Cancellation of student loan debt (Note: Not bankruptcy discharge, which I support - just flat cancellation without consequence to the borrower.)

Tariffs to stop wage and environmental arbitrage (good) and wide-open borders (horrifyingly bad and flatly impossible given the first two demands.)

A right to a college education (not an aspiration, a right - which means irrespective of ability. How has this worked out for our High Schools when we forced everyone, including those who are on the lower end of the bell curve in intelligence, into "mainstream" classrooms? It's been an unqualified statistical disaster.)

Add up all the above and you have a thinly-disguised attempt to demand Communism.

I wonder how many of the participants realize how thin a line it is they are treading, and how awful their lives will be if they get their way.

Once again, yes I realize we are fucked. Yes I realize it's mostly the banks' fault. But overthrowing the evil dictators at Bank of America is only going to make room for new, just as evil dictators, and there is no way to win without striking at the root. Hint: it's the Federal Reserve, not Wall Street.

And if the entitlement generation really wants to be taken seriously, leave the fucking zombie outfits at home and put on a God damn tie.

The good news is it appears

there are a few job openings in Oakland

if anyone is looking:

Wiljago Cook, 33, of Oakland, Calif., who joined the protest on the first day, said "exposing police brutality wasn't even really on my agenda but my eyes have been opened."

She and her boyfriend and two neighbors all quit their jobs to come and planned "to stay as long as it seems useful," said Cook, who had worked for a nonprofit theater group.

She was wearing zombie makeup that included a red streak down her forehead. "It's a cheeky and fun way to make the same point that we've been making," Cook said of her painted face.

Is it any wonder some of these kids can't find a job? I mean who is going to hire

the chick with a half-shaven head

Time to grow up, people. Said the dirty hipster with 38 tattoos, stretched ears, skunk hair and two very awesome jobs. You don't have to sell out to work, you just have to work.

Now THAT is a revolutionary concept.

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