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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.97,0:00:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,illdoctrine.com
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.44,0:00:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Occupy Wallstreet
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.17,0:00:06.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started out feeling skeptical about this movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.41,0:00:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think there's still work to be done
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.58,0:00:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making sure it's as inclusive as it needs to be
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.61,0:00:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among other things
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.86,0:00:13.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I've been watching it, and I've been going down there
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.55,0:00:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have to say it is an inspiring scene,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.38,0:00:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think they are getting a lot of things right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.22,0:00:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when it comes to the core of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.88,0:00:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the goals and the messaging,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.36,0:00:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think Occupy Wall Street is dead on.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.16,0:00:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's every bit as specific as it needs to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.16,0:00:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every bit as non-specific as it needs to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.56,0:00:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just specific enough to capture that basic sentiment so many people share,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.37,0:00:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's just vague enough to let many different people come to it
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.04,0:00:40.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with many different shades of that sentiment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.11,0:00:42.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as it keeps growing and coalescing,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.31,0:00:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if certain people keep on professing not to get it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.24,0:00:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those were probably the people who weren't supposed to get it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.78,0:00:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is what I love most about Occupy Wall Street
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.52,0:00:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a media person who loves to watch how we communicate in that sphere,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.19,0:01:01.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love Occupy Wall Street for how it manipulates all the news media's biggest corn balls
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.86,0:01:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into outing themselves as corn balls.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.73,0:01:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love watching them go on and on about how they have no idea what everyone's protesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.50,0:01:12.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love watching them pretend it's just a bunch of hippies who don't matter
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.54,0:01:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they don't dress respectably.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.04,0:01:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love how when it gets too big for that,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.01,0:01:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they start saying it doesn't matter because it's a bunch of yuppies who DO dress respectably.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.88,0:01:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love when they say it's off-the-mark because the financial sector is mostly in midtown nowadays.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.58,0:01:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like you really can't comprehend that this is about what Wall Street symbolizes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.32,0:01:32.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love when they say it's off the mark because we should be protesting Washington.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.19,0:01:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As if the symbolic Wall Street's undue influence on the symbolic Washington
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.30,0:01:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hasn't been a running theme of this protest from the start.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.50,0:01:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love this whole spectacle of everyone scrambling and scraping for ways to pretend that something
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.04,0:01:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,serious isn't happening here. It's like a big gameshow where everyone competes to see who
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.21,0:01:52.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can build the biggest strawman. And it's not only fun to watch,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.61,0:01:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it provides a valuable service, because it reveals to us all who the Ringers are Wall Street's Three-card
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.72,0:01:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Monte table.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.97,0:02:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back in the 80s I bought all my vinyl at a place called The Music Factor
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.39,0:02:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Time Square. So I used to hang out on that block and study how the Three-card Monte games worked.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.54,0:02:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as you probably know, every Three-card Monte setup has a Ringer. The Ringer's job is
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.47,0:02:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pretend they're an objective, outside observer commenting on the game,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.27,0:02:21.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they're actually a part of the hustle who's there to help bamboozle
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.41,0:02:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the public into thinking this game is legitimate. So naturally if we stand next
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.21,0:02:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the game and start telling everyone that the game is rigged, the Ringer is going
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.92,0:02:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to flip on us and start doing everything they can to make sure nobody
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.45,0:02:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listens to us. They're going to tell everyone that we're a bunch of losers who are just
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.02,0:02:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hatin' because we don't know how to play the game. We're a bunch of
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.61,0:02:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cardgame-hating socialists. They're going to try everything they can
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.03,0:02:47.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to discredit us so they can protect that game that they're so invested in.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.30,0:02:51.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it feels like that's what we've been seeing all month with Occupy Wall Street.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.17,0:02:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you might be thinking to yourself my analogy is incomplete because
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.34,0:02:57.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those card games also have a lookout, who's there to make sure the cops aren't
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.89,0:03:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coming to shut the game down. And they usually have some muscle,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.65,0:03:03.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's there to intimidate us from messing up the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.45,0:03:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you'd be right, but that's how this version of the game is different.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.92,0:03:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this version of the game, the hustler's don't need lookouts because the cops
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.56,0:03:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't want to shut down the game. In this version of the game, the cops are the muscle
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.16,0:03:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to intimidate us from shutting down the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.06,0:03:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's not to say I think every police officer is a bad-guy, I suspect that many
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.37,0:03:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rank-and-file officers are sympathic to this cause.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.07,0:03:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the police, as an instititution, their function in this game has been to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.86,0:03:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,step in and quiet us down whenever we shout, at the top of our lungs,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.78,0:03:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we think this whole game is rigged.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.25,0:03:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So like I said at the beginning, I think there is a lot of work yet to be done,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.65,0:03:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a lot of cards still left to fall just the right way for this to become everything that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.06,0:03:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it could be, but I do think it has incredibly potential. I think it's already
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.96,0:03:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accomplishing big things. And if it doesn't accomplish anything else, I think Occupy
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.30,0:03:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wall Street has provided a vital service, simply by making it clear who the Ringers are,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.19,0:04:00.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who the muscle is, at Wall Street and Washington's Three-card Monte
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.71,0:04:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,table. And I just hope the movement is sharp enough to survive this next stage of the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.45,0:04:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where they realize they can't shut us down, so they start trying to co-opting us instead,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.62,0:04:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make us a part of the game.