Deepthinking

But part of the reason, I think, is that those who stand with the 1% simply don’t want to be seen. They know what they are doing and the effects that it is having or will have, and they are simply willing to go on doing it anyway. Unlike Gordon Gecko, they are not willing to announce piously that “greed is good,” but by the same token they aren’t willing to give any ground. They refuse to engage with the protestors, perhaps with the assumption that if they ignore them they will eventually run out of energy and disappear, once again allowing the war to continue in all of its invisibility. And so they stay outside of the view of the lens of the camera. This, by the way, might be one of the key difference between Occupy protests and Tea Party Protests; in the later we typically see the opposition joining the debate, but here that almost never happens. The other difference, of course, is that we rarely if ever see the police arresting Tea Party protestors.