Various blogging luminaries have noted a certain lack of focus about the Great British Demonstration. In France you can remedy that by going on a course – a protest solutions course.
Tonight, I am mainly listening to the sound of Situationists weeping.
As it goes, I think it’s true that there was a slightly tired, ritual quality to the demos of the past week. But that’s entirely in accordance with the mood of the country, which is sullen rather than angry. It’s almost as if we’d collectively sent delegates down there to mope about a bit in public on our behalf.
Not many people actually seem to want to protest, fewer have a precise handle on what we should be protesting about, and none of them seem to agree. But it would be a poor do if nobody came out and every bank window in the country remained intact. There are such things as standards.
Isn't "protest solutions" courses what the ex-OTPOR guys' consulting shop does? Damn, we could do with some of that.
Posted by: Alex | April 10, 2009 at 09:29 PM
No, this is "getting the CIA's man in". "protest solutions" is through the third door down on the left, past "incohate expressions of rage", but before "never going to work, but makes us all feel better".
Posted by: Chris Williams | April 10, 2009 at 11:21 PM
If the CIA has any sense*, like Rupert Murdoch, it decides who looks likely to win and then backs them.
*big assumption, but you need to assume something to reason about anything.
Posted by: Alex | April 10, 2009 at 11:48 PM
As Wall Street goes, so goes the nation.
Posted by: ejh | April 11, 2009 at 01:22 PM