IMO, you did pretty much lay bare the nature of OWS. That nature just happens to totally scare the shit out of people that live by fear, aggression, violence, hate, and greed.
Like you said in your post, "OWS seeks to replace the entire political, social, and economic culture with a wider sense of human community. It already conducts itself in that manner." I would go even further, and say that OWS is already in the process of replacing the entire political, social, and economic culture with a wider sense of human community.
To authoritarian conservative personalities, the tangible aura of collective human compassion and power to bring about inevitable constructive positive change that characterizes the nature of Occupy is terribly confusing, and overwhelmingly frightening.
I feel sorry for them to an extent; but their harmful, hateful, destructive self and mass delusions and illusions are becoming unsustainable and more lethal to everyone and everything with each passing day, and the world as they know it must necessarily drastically change or they will inevitably kill the planet. We simply can't put up with this childish behavior anymore. They are going to have great difficulty coping without someone in authority to tell them what to do, and authoritarian conservatives by nature lack imagination and the capability to comfortably adapt to new circumstances as well. They'll just have to cope with our peace and love, like we've had to cope with violence and hate. From our perspective, this is a no brainer; but prisoners often become fully dependent on their abusive captors, and abuse becomes the comfortable norm for them.
Fortunately, there's nothing they can do to stop this idea whose time has come.
It will take time for the change to fully manifest, but the power of love has already overcome the love of power, and there is no way to stop it now.
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