I have to ask of Occupy supporters, are these nutjobs representative of the movement?
(Washington Post) Two weeks after a Washington protest group affiliated with Occupy DC shut down the Air and Space Museum, some protesters are heading to New York’s cultural institutions for a demonstration. Occupy Museums will demonstrate at the Museum of Modern Art, the Frick Collection and the New Museum on Thursday evening against the “cultural elitism†that they say the museums perpetuate.
According to Noah Fischer, the organizer of the protest:
The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and propaganda concerning absurd elevation of one individual genius over another human being for the monetary gain of the elitest of elite.
So, all you Occupiers out there who are artists, you must now…..give your art away for free. Otherwise, you are perpetuating the notion that you are a servant of the rich. So, if you don’t mind, I’d like a nice painting of people surfing at the Manasquan Inlet surf beach. For free.
Do I really have to mention that these people are nuts? And the protest is showing more every day that it is simply an unhinged leftist protest against everything that might possibly annoy them? Except for government. They’re fine with government.
