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Of course the nature of peasantry has altered. To judge by the Twitter feeds, Facebookpostings, blog entries, YouTube uploads, and the nearly interminable scroll of theOccupyWallStreet website, modern hewers of wood and drawers of water can be fairly said to"serf the Internet." Yet the underlying causes of revolt haven't changed since Sparta's fifth century BC helottroubles or the Roman Republic's First Servile War of 135-132 BC.
The few have a lot. Themany have little. Click reset. . There isn't much good to be said about the origins or the outcomes of peasant revolts, butthere are good reasons they keep happening. Economic distress equals political unrest, on theperfectly reasonable assumption that politics and economics are joined at the hip. No matter ifthe wrong Siamese twin often takes the beating--any political unrest will have some influenceon foreign policy.
As political unrest goes, the Occupy movement would seem insignificant. There's somethingtoo smug, ironic, and self-admiring in the way it quotes the styles of protests with moresubstance, protests against racial discrimination, war, and dictatorship. A November 17th blogpost at OccupyWallStreet.org claimed, "This is the climax of a decades-long battle for the soulof humanity itself." But, according to the New York Daily News, when Joan Baez sang atZuccotti Park many of the sleep-in's youngsters didn't know who she was.
(And Occupy hasmore bongo drums than even an old beatnik like Joannie could tolerate.) But we live in a virtual world. Action increasingly takes place in our imaginations. And OccupyWall Street has tweaked the imagination of America even if most Americans can't quiteimagine sitting under tarps in front of the local T. Rowe Price office, talking about it all night.
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