Whither Goest Our World?

On this Sunday I'm giving a great deal of thought to the various Occupy movements going on around our world. Although I personally have some issue with the rational and purpose of these protests, I must be honest when I say that there is change in the wind.

Police (apparently) pepper spraying people just for the fun(?) of it. No recognition from the elites that there are those who are really hurting economically are out there with no options. Large numbers of people seeing jobs as an entitlement.

And behind it all, no seeming recognition that these are the kinds of times and events that bring enormous change to a world. There doesn't seem to any idea that the protests in Tahrir Square and the protests on Wall Street are related things.

Here's a New York Times article about an entirely new group of Americans about to slip into poverty. They are called the "Near Poor" and are 51 million strong (or perhaps weak would be a better descriptor).

We need to remember that when people have nothing left to lose, they do things like the French Revolution.

Cake anyone?