The Reign of the One Percenters Income inequality and the death of culture in New York City

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6470

For my daughter’s benefit, so that she might know the enemy better, know what he looks like, where he nests, and when and where to throw eggs at his head, we start the tour at Wall Street. It’s hot. August. We’re sweating like old cheese.

Here are the monuments that matter, I tell her: the offices of Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon; the JPMorgan Chase tower up the block; around the corner, the AIG building. The structures dwarf us, imposing themselves skyward.

“Linked together like rat warrens, with air conditioning,” I tell her. “These are dangerous creatures, Léa. Sociopaths.”

She doesn’t know what sociopath means.

“It’s a person who doesn’t care about anybody but himself. Socio, meaning society—you, me, this city, civilization. Patho, like pathogen—carrying and spreading disease.”

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[Bluenorthwest]

1. This piece has some great points and information

One of the things I love about OWS is that it is an event in NYC that is actual and made of people, that once great cultural capitol is no more and to see a breath of actual life on the streets of NY is not only a joy, it is a good sign, in and of itself.