Surreality ensues.<\/p>\n
I have a bit of video of two seventeen-year-old “protesters” who are part of a high school class brought by their teacher — they! are! the 99%! — but since I changed hard drives I can’t remember how to get back into my youtube account to post it (if anybody has an account and wants to host the video, let me know). One of these young ladies told me they were being “taught” in school that we (bloggers? reporters? producers? videographers? libertarians? conservatives? people who have chosen a hemp-free lifestyle and don’t own plastic masks or Mao hats? Who this “we” is was never made entirely clear) are “fucking up the future” for them, and they are outraged<\/i>!<\/p>\n
Sadly, when pressed on how “we” were fucking up their<\/em> future, the poor kids couldn’t say. Which is okay, of course. Because that’s how they feel<\/em>, and its how they feel, no matter how much those feelings have been manipulated, that matters.<\/p>\n Jim Hoft of Gatewaypundit was able to catch up with the teacher and interview her<\/a>. Late in the interview, she seems to finally sense that not only might bringing her class to the protest have been a bad idea, but that being interviewed on camera about it was likely a worse<\/em> idea.<\/p>\n I mean, all this, and the Koch Brothers had nothing whatever<\/i> to do with Blogcon11, a Freedomworks event<\/i>. Bastards didn’t even bother to send a fruit basket or a cheese plate, truth be told. Meaning that these protesters, by dint of trying to storm<\/a> our event, were essentially left “protesting” a new media conference whose goal it is to explore how best to expand avenues of competitive narrative distribution and provide more rapid and effective information dissemination for “the People”. Or put more simply, the “protesters,” self-righteously claiming the mantle of free speech, were protesting free speech<\/i>.<\/p>\n — Well, that, and their leader in particular seemed quite upset that “humanity” was not getting the proper amount of water. Which as a result is killing off Indians. Somehow. Somewhere. Precious bodily fluids, you see. It always comes down to precious bodily fluids.<\/p>\n Takeaway? I guess the 99% prefer to be kept pig ignorant — WE WILL ATTEMPT TO SHOUT DOWN YOUR ATTEMPTS AT A MORE COMPETITIVE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH IDEAS CAN BE FREED FROM THE CONSTRAINTS OF AN IDEOLOGICALLY BIASED MAINSTREAM PRESS, RACIST HATERS! — and fuck if they won’t chant in unselfconscious sing-son their insistence that the rest of us allow them to stay that way.<\/p>\n As I said, surreal reality. Surreality.<\/p>\n So. I finally saw what democracy looks like. And it turns out it’s about 19, vacant-eyed, and wears far too much beige.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Surreality ensues. I have a bit of video of two seventeen-year-old “protesters” who are part of a high school class brought by their teacher — they! are! the 99%! — but since I changed hard drives I can’t remember how to get back into my youtube account to post it (if anybody has an account and wants to host the video, let me know). One of these young ladies told<\/p>\n