IN AN excellent piece at Youth for Western Civilization, Kevin DeAnna describes the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters. He writes:

Much like the May 1968 protests in Paris that almost toppled de Gaulle, the action in the streets is as much driven for a search for meaning as it is a search for economic justice. In a world of consumerism and shattered community, taking to the streets is a way of showing that you still matter, that you have an identity, and that there is still some semblance of democracy in this country. It will fail. Our economic masters have long since mastered the art of selling left wing rebellion right back to the consumers. Even Adbusters realizes that. Ultimately, the world of deracinated, autonomous, atomistic individuals babbling about the “rights” they learned in college serves both the corporate world and the left wing establishment. In fact, they’re one and the same. After all, the main figure of May ’68, the dashing revolutionary Danny the Red, is now European Parliament member Daniel Cohn-Bendit, striving to bring you the antiseptic, soul-crushing policies of the European Union that will tell you what light bulbs you are allowed to use.

The biggest obstacle to McWorld isn’t some nonsense theory about institutional racism – it’s real existing communities built on Tradition and Identity. Real change, real rebellion, has to come from the unapologetic and explicit Right that recognizes and defends hierarchy, excellence, and the right of peoples to determine their own destiny. It will come from a real Right that puts the nation above the bankers, that puts free enterprise above corporatism, and that doesn’t sneer at workers that are part of the national community. The closest example would have been the movement behind Pat Buchanan that would have stopped mass immigration, outsourcing, and the deindustrialization of America. Rather than looking for meaning in existentialist rebellion that has tried and failed before, what is needed is National Revolution that can create a superior version of an actually existing community built on nationality, culture, and tradition. As far as youth are concerned, we should be marching against the college administrators that put us 200K in debt for useless degrees. We should actively seek to pop the education bubble, campaigning against the federal subsidies towards colleges that allow them to keep jacking up tuition and demanding cuts for useless disciplines that serve as an excuse for leftists to rent seek off the public teat. It needs to be said that the leftists are protesting the world that they created. Agitating for more of the same won’t do anything for us.

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Jane writes:

Have you heard about the “We Can’t Afford a Shirt” Wall Street protesters? Topless women chanting their spin while holding a sign that reads, “A Job is a Right.” What are the chances these women majored in Women’s Studies, are significantly in debt for said degree and are sexually confused?

Laura writes:

Interesting.

I don’t agree with everything DeAnna says. For instance, he writes:

As far as youth are concerned, we should be marching against the college administrators that put us 200K in debt for useless degrees.

College administrators can’t force students to go into debt or attend college. College is very expensive partly because it is in high demand. A community with a strong identity would not expect so many women to go to expensive colleges or most married women to work. Egalitarian ideals have created excess demand for jobs and credentials. Also, corporate advertisers don’t have the power to make people buy anything they don’t want.  

And if DeAnna is suggesting the government should engage in trade protectionism, he is calling for more government not less.

Joe writes:

Regarding the  “We Can’t Afford a Shirt” women, there was a time, not so long ago and, ironically before feminism, in which a reasonably fit, attractive enough (and desperate) young woman would have been paid good money to remove her clothes in private, let alone in public, in the presence of strangers.

Is it any wonder these budding feminists are broke? They don’t understand the value of their own sex. How can they be expected to understand anything more complex or demanding?

(No friend of the Bankster I. Were it up to me they would all be imprisoned or simply stoned to death. Hell, I ratted out FNMA to the fibbies before The One ascended the throne. Naturally, the case went nowhere. Capitalism is a Jewish thing, not God’s. Christians had the free market for a little while, quite a different system altogether based on honor and trust not greed and legalism.)

Joe adds:

About the student loan disaster-in-waiting, it’s not as simplistic as you might think.

Take my case for example. Among the other degrees I’ve collected, I’m a qualified MBA from a solid second tier school with the brains and experience and ambition to back it up. I spent a few hundred thousand dollars in out-of-pocket expense, opportunity cost (two years without pay) and taxpayer “voluntary investment contributions” to earn it back in the late 1990s.

Naturally, it was funded on my end with debt which was essentially an SBA loan in myself, so to speak.

What was my reward?

First of all, I was taxed at a confiscatory rate worthy of millionaires not long ago.

Secondly, the interest became non-deductible as an act of executive fiat.

Thirdly, corrupt corporatism* conspired to devalue American professional/white collar work by way of the H1B and offshoring scams we now accept as a matter of survival. (Seek out the Programmers’ Guild web site for mind-blowing information on these programs than make illegal immigration look benign).

So the reality is that my decision to seek expensive post-graduate education was premised on my personal estimate of post-graduate profit net of loan service and principle repayment. And for a short while, the projections held. Then out of nowhere the rug was pulled from under me.

Those 30-year projections, based on the Common Law principle that an agreement is an agreement is an agreement, were obsolete: I found myself being systematically undercut by foreign competition that did not bear a $150,000 cost basis (plus a comparable amount of capital investment made to my benefit by taxpayers, alumni, benefactors, and so on and so on). They do not have families with the half-million dollar mortgages a young professional must assume to live in a white neighborhood in commuting proximity to a major airport or Center City (the Main Line in my case). In fact, they can and do work in near-slavery because of the H1B immigration scam and the leverage it exerts on them by their “importers”.

So telling a student loan peon to pay because he signed a paper is beside the point: the rules were changed ex hoc. It is simply impossible for me to repay my loans, which carry a very high interest rate by today’s measures. They are effectively an underwater mortgage made so by government fiat. Further, I had the misfortune of falling grievously ill and I’m effectively “out of the game.” It is not possible for me to earn at a rate anywhere near my former salary.

But even bankruptcy does not clear student loan debt, thanks to that unholy alliance. The student loan debtor is truly a peon and debtor’s prison is not far off.

Income does not equal wealth, yet the wealthy have effectively prevented competition by eliminating the very possibility to accumulate wealth through income, by way of the income tax and related wage taxes and semantic games with the IRS code.

Effectively, we are subject to a criminal regime and it is a deadly error to consider our situation in any way subject to the rules of honor or decency. It is a death struggle and to that extent the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd understands that much, if not much else.

*(i.e., an Italian fascist style merger of the State and the common stock corporation into a coordinated and complementary unit designed to facilitate the management of the population, via their employers)

Laura writes:

As DeAnna points out, the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters do not object to legal H1B immigration.

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