Permanently Preoccupied (PREP4)

To be quite honest, I don’t think the Occupy movement was very successful. I will always remember the PR failures of the movement rather than any success it may have had. From 4chan’s “Anonymous” taking their Guy Fawkes masks to Occupy movements and creating a hate machine to radio shows sending producers to the Occupy camps to stir up trouble for a radio stunt, there was just too much to laugh at than to take seriously. Having no face of the movement, if only to let people know the actual goal, was the worst decision of all the bad decisions made, and it eventually caused the movement to be seen as a fruitless endeavor.

If I’m running the movement, my first action is to let everyone know the point of marching through Wall Street. I explain what we want changed and how we plan on forcing the change to come about. That was the thing that OWS got wrong; no one ever had a clear picture as to what the hell was the end game in all of this. Maybe the movement itself never had a true grasp on what it really wanted, and that caused it to implode. Having a face or a spokesperson to be the PR person of the movement and be able to ‘rally the troops’ is what the movement desperately lacked, and I really don’t understand how it never appointed anyone to be that person at any point. That should have been one of the first decisions made. You have a leader, and you have goals that are centralized and set in stone. It’s that simple. But OWS got it wrong and, ultimately, failed to achieve the kind of success it could, and should have had.