Resort to group think processes may serve well to defer change in practice, being liable to abstraction, with words displacing action as the operative norm. Words are spoken, collected, collated and re-framed as saummary statements. These summary statements are then disseminated as information for the constituent community. On reception, the words of the summary statement are adopted, or not, as normative for the life and work of the constituent community's communities.

Back in the 80’s, we eager young seminarians were required to take a class in social action: how to plan and implement a protest, how alter public opinion, and generally make change.  Good stuff like how to manipulate the media and the best way to get arrested were also on the curriculum.  The goal was to get out there and get labelled an elemento subversivo.  

Well, I know that there are many things I don.t get but for the life of me I don't see that Occupy, the tent cities and the placards are doing anything for any body,

Who is working among these folk? Who is feeding the family at home? It feels like a thing to do.  The US is doing it, England is doing it so Canada should do it.

But what is it accomplishing. This is what I don;t get.Can you name me one change that has taken place because these people are  gathered and partying? Playing guitars, singing etc.

Like so many Canadian celebrities, it had to go make it big in the United States before it could come back to Canada and be welcomed. I’m talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement, which was born in Vancouver at Adbusters magazine.