I don’t think it’s a lack of focus per se, I think it’s a lot of our protest since Occupy Wall Street had tried to substitute emotions for principled beliefs. Protesting to show you’re “angry” doesn’t mean anything because there’s no end goal. If our protests embody the emotions of a toddler, then it’s no wonder they get easily manipulated, shut down, or end up going nowhere. Protesting for the sake of it is simply idiotic. It’s fine and perfectly normal to be emotional at protests, but they have to be accompanied by specific demands and principles, otherwise you just have a directionless mob. It doesn’t matter where you place this mob or what cause you give it, it’s not going to accomplish anything because it’s lost.
I don’t think it’s a lack of focus per se, I think it’s a lot of our protest since Occupy Wall Street had tried to substitute emotions for principled beliefs. Protesting to show you’re “angry” doesn’t mean anything because there’s no end goal. If our protests embody the emotions of a toddler, then it’s no wonder they get easily manipulated, shut down, or end up going nowhere. Protesting for the sake of it is simply idiotic. It’s fine and perfectly normal to be emotional at protests, but they have to be accompanied by specific demands and principles, otherwise you just have a directionless mob. It doesn’t matter where you place this mob or what cause you give it, it’s not going to accomplish anything because it’s lost.