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		<title>&amp;quot;Don&amp;apos;t trust anyone over 30&amp;quot;</title>
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		<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:02:33 GMT" ctSaves="19" flPreview="false" id="2011.10.16.1381" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="1381" text="&quot;Don't trust anyone over 30&quot;" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/16/embracingThe1Percent.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:26:32 GMT">
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:37:54 GMT" pgfnum="10241" text="When I was a kid, and definitely under 30, the hippies had a slogan that you shouldn't trust anyone over 30. This was called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_gap&quot;&gt;generation gap&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe some historian or sociologist can explain it. I just remember people saying it and not understanding. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:39:12 GMT" pgfnum="10243" text="I could think of specific people over 30 that you coudn't trust. People I had seen betray young people because they were young and couldn't defend themselves. When you're a kid you're tuned into this. I guess the question is what do you plan to do about it when you become an adult. Will you be better, or will you seek revenge? Or just forget about it."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:40:26 GMT" pgfnum="10244" text="And here we are again. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:20:46 GMT" pgfnum="10262" text="I've been watching the Occupy Wall Street movement. I've even developed tools that make it possible to watch it more closely, and I do see a little bit of this kind of thinking. I'm concerned how solid the line is, and if there's an opportunity for resolution."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:50:08 GMT" pgfnum="10252" text="What it sounds like. We're the 99 percent and they're the 1 percent. We're angry with what the 1 percent has been doing. If it stopped there, it would be okay, but it might not stop there. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:38:05 GMT" pgfnum="10249" text="But first, let's take a look at what they're reacting to."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:38:15 GMT" pgfnum="10250" text="Here's a quote from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/business/in-private-conversation-wall-street-is-more-critical-of-protesters.html?_r=2&amp;ref=business&quot;&gt;NY Times article&lt;/a&gt; with interviews with Wall Street bankers about the OWS movement. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:48:21 GMT" pgfnum="10251" text="&lt;i&gt;He added that he was disappointed that members of Congress from New York, especially Senator Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, had not come out swinging for an industry that donates heavily to their campaigns. 'They need to understand who their constituency is,' he said. &lt;/i&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:51:28 GMT" pgfnum="10253" text="Breath-taking. That person needs to be revolted against. Seriously. (And the article has lots of quotes like that, this one is just the most egregious.)"></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:51:52 GMT" pgfnum="10254" text="But does that mean that all people who are in the top 1 percent think like that? Obviously, not. And in the 60s there were people over 30 who marched with the kids. Many problems with blanket statements like &quot;Don't trust anyone over 30.&quot; Unfair. And they also make victory impossible. To get resolution you have to make it so that being over 30 isn't a problem for those under 30. And that 1 percenters don't make it impossible for the 99 percent to have good lives."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:53:17 GMT" pgfnum="10255" text="What if, instead, a collection of 1-percenters said: &quot;We hear you. We understand that the political system has been perverted by money. The evidence is everywhere. We need reform. Can we put our minds together and try to come up with a way out of this mess?&quot;"></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:54:43 GMT" pgfnum="10256" text="If that happened would there be a way to proceed?"></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:02:36 GMT" pgfnum="10259" text="I find it's always a good idea to try to visualize the conclusion of your campaign. What would victory look like? And if you get close would you be willing to compromise? These are good questions to ask when a conflict is young, because later there will be too many wounds to just declare peace and get on with it."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:16:10 GMT" pgfnum="10261" text="PS: Highly recommend reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/10/occupying-my-mind.html&quot;&gt;Fred Wilson's piece&lt;/a&gt;, also posted today, about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/6241283271/in/set-72157627847392850/#/photos/scriptingnews/6241283271/in/set-72157627847392850/lightbox/&quot;&gt;visit&lt;/a&gt; we took to Zuccotti Park on Thursday."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:25:33 GMT" pgfnum="10263" text="PPS: Also highly recommended, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogmaverick.com/2011/10/14/my-soapbox-advice-to-the-ows-movement-and-then-some/&quot;&gt;Mark Cuban&lt;/a&gt; has several specific ideas that sound right on to me."></outline>
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