Here's an interesting exchange with my brother who lives in Berkeley. It started when I sent him a link to a video on the Occupation of Wall Street, where Roseanne Barr's opinion was asked by a videographer.
Then my brother said, what's 9/11 got to do with the financial crisis, and Roseanne Barr is just a rich hippie in Hawaii.
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From: "Isabel de Ilocos"
To: enricomedina
Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2011 7:06:11 PM
Subject: this one's great
Roseanne Barr and Occupy Wall Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=X5Zyz8njQb8
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2011/10/9
OK, but what really does 9/11 have to do with occupy wall street and economic strife?
If I have a criticism for this, it is that they are muddling the issues by trying to pile on top conspiracy theories without really saying much of anything. I admire that Roseanne Barr is an activist but in reality, she is just a has been latent hippie. She has moved to Hawaii and has a reality show where she is supposedly living on a farm and raising or has a business with Macadamia nuts. She's defintely nuts! When she says, "We know!" There really is no substance to what she said because she didn't really say "anything?"
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My Take --
When you don't know anything about Roseanne Barr's personal life, you just connect with what she does in front of the camera, which is to just show a face with eyes looking steadily and knowingly into the camera, which means: I see you. I see you, System, you aren't pulling the wool over my eyes anymore.
That's all. That's what I liked about it.
And the 9/11 and the people against the war in Afghanistan, and the people against the banks destroying the financial system...it's even more interesting than just one issue. Because the system has always succeeded in getting people to just see one issue. But now, the people are seeing that it is an entire construct, don't you see? That the crisis is touching on all aspects of existence, and this is because the system is destructive on multiple levels.
If the people get together like this, it spells danger for the system because the people are starting to fuse together. The issues are no longer dividing them up.
Cause normally, if there's only one issue at stake, then the people get polarized: there are those for, and others against. But this way, there is no more for / against, there is only the people realizing that none of this is right, none of this is working, and IN FACT, IT NEVER DID, BUT WE COULD NEVER SEE THE BIG PICTURE BEFORE.
So you see, you don't need the rational take that explains what 9/11 has to do with Wall Street. It isn't about an issue anymore, it's about a SYSTEM.
And people are coming together. THIS IS WHY the media has been trying to keep it invisible, and then trying to say: it's muddled. To get people against it, criticize it, pooh-pooh it, and get people to say, oh Roseanne Barr is just a rich hippie who lives in Hawaii.
Make sense?
It's very cunning in setting people against each other, getting them to nitpick. But right now, it's not working anymore because people are too smart...and because they just can't function anymore, the system is ripping apart their lives at every level.
It's 1:35am. I spent the entire day with Alberto and his family celebrating his mom's 80th birthday. It was quite a celebration, about 80 people spent 6 hours together, young, old, there was quite a program put together. Her grandchildren even put together a book about her and her husband's greatest adventure--going to Israel in 1950 to start a kibbutz with a big group of other Jews from all over Europe and South America. Her husband used to talk about it to everybody, he wrote down the story. It's actually history. And Raquel's granddaughter and grandson -- the most academically oriented -- put together the manuscript and photographs (Raquel's husband died 3 years ago).
I can't tell you how comforting it is for me to be part of this cultural milieu, the Jewish immigrants to Latin America. At one point a very charismatic young woman came by and played guitar and sang Yiddish and Spanish songs, traditional Jewish songs, and a very funny Mexican bolero and a very emotionally touching Argentine tango.
Even Hava Nagila!!! I could sing along with that one.
Goodnight my dear, until tomorrow!
Liz
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