Occupy LOVE

You meet a girl or a boy and the sparks fly. INSTANT connection. All you want to do is spend time together, be in each other's space, share . . . you stick together for a couple of months and then the idea pops in your head that this may be long-term. You start looking at things through a different lens. The initial euphoria gives way to a more calculating, is this really what I want, kind of logic.

Such is also the energy with Occupy Wall Street. The thermostat is heatin' up. The personality is about to . . . change.

Is it my "job" to PREDICT the future or HELP SHAPE the future ?? An interesting question. One, truthfully, I sometimes struggle with. But I will say this . . .

there are sooooooooooooo many beautiful things about the Occupy Movement. But the "aura" is changing -- and, in my opinion, not for the better. There is an "expectation" now that wasn't there before . . . and so it will now exhibit many of the power struggles that happen with the evolution of "a team". LOVE is what matters. Let's hope everyone remembers that.

I didn't have to be Nostradamus to know Occupy Wall Street had, at best, a 60 day window before things got a bit "tense" . . . the beauty so far is that the movement has galvanized a "thought form" and test-driven it on a mass scale. Beautiful . . . but if we read our Sun Tzu, we know this succeeded (in part) because it caught the enemy by surprise.

Well, they're not surprised any longer. The time is now to change tactics. Hopefully, everyone knows how to connect with everyone else -- and I am not talking about Facebook or Twitter . . . now it is time to strike with collective actions that impact the pocket book of corporate America. This HAS to be the next phase . . . if your desire was to open campgrounds in the big cities, then you've failed.

If your desire is to change the world, then change your tactics. Be like water; flow where resistance is weak.

Some ideas: if people know access points, like cafes or places like that, to use as information dissemination points -- and they are planned now, via word of mouth, then you have that already, in case you need it later

do it before you need it, just in case

if people see success only measured by how long they can stay in the park, they will be disappointed

change the tactics while you are in a position of strength -- better to define tactics as opposed to reacting to the tactical strengths of your opponent

secondly, the police are gonna up the ante on moving these central gathering points so have multiple places, planned in advance -- also just in case

change enough gears and the engine goes a different direction; the enemy is NOT a monolithic corporate beast -- the enemy is lack of awareness on the part of the prey . . .