You're Occupying My Precious Time

Listen to me people of Occupy Wall Street (as well as the rest of you who are "occupying" other cities): You're not changing anything! The only thing you're doing is occupying my precious time by making me listen to your blather as I walk by or wait for the bus!
Am I pissed about the state of America? YES! Am I pissed about the economy and the corporate greed? YES and YES!
But let's get something straight: your stupid hippie protests aren't going to accomplish shit. In fact, you don't even know what you're trying to accomplish!
Sure you say you want corporate greed to stop as you dress in your Levi's and talk on your iPhone. But guess what, you are the people fueling it!

As am I.

We buy these mass produced consumer goods because they are readily available and affordable. Now, you could go out and buy only locally made products and support only local businesses. People do it. It's not nearly as convenient and not quite as affordable (although you can get some great deals if you know where to look). But you can do it.

Pretty much everything in our lives are products of corporate greed and major corporations. Your car? Made by a major corporation that gives fuck all about you, but really does give a fuck about fucking you out of your money.
Yes I one too. In fact, I have two. So fuck you.

The clothes you're wearing? If they aren't a major name brand, the chances that they were made in the same factories by the same little sweatshop kids as the name brand stuff are probably pretty good. Anyone can get anything custom made by a factory in China. Just go to alibaba.com and open an account. You too can be a "local retailer of small batch made goods" by this weekend.
Obviously any sort of technology or electronic equipment are produced by those who posses corporate greed.

Face it, passive, organized protest never changed a fucking thing. People always look to Martin Luther King Jr. While he helped change a lot of things, he didn't do it alone. There were also forces such as Malcom X, the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground that affected much of, if not more change than Martin Luther King's uplifting "I have a goddamned dream" speeches.

And this bullshit protesting? That's all it is...a fucking pipe dream.
Do you really believe that some high powered executive is going to see you guys on the street and something will click in his psyche like "oh shit, they're right! I've been fucking people all these years to amass my riches. Fuck me, I'd better stop."
No! Those people are well aware of the situation, and they don't care. That's how they got to those positions!
Fuck! Are you people really that ignorant?

And fuck the President and the government in general. He doesn't care about you. None of the politicians do. Again, that's how they got there. They (the billionaires, the CEO's, the politicians) are all part of the same little corrupt group.
If you think you actually voted for or against Obama, you're kidding yourself. For years, it's been known that the electoral college system is just PR bullshit. You don't actually vote for anyone or anything. The recent Alaska Way viaduct improvement solution in Seattle was a perfect example.
The people of Seattle and King county didn't vote for the deep bore tunnel. The tunnel was/is the most expensive alternate solution to the viaduct, which is aging and structurally unsound due to the local earthquakes. However, the government failed to give us any opportunity to vote for another alternative. There were alternatives discussed and presented, but they all failed to make the ballot.
So, the vote wasn't so much for the tunnel as it was against doing nothing.
Those were our choices: tunnel, which has already been determined is going to go over the proposed budget, or do nothing and wait for the road to collapse.

Fuckers. Fuck the government.

My point is, sitting around in the rain singing "Kumbaya" isn't going to change anything. Again, it's all about the money and the power. As a single person, unless you are willing to pick up a gun (and you aren't, you've proved that by sitting in the rain singing aboriginal show tunes), you have very little power. Again, the argument is "I have the right to vote."
And you do.
But as we've seen, that don't mean shit.
Consider this: what if you don't vote? And you convince everyone else to not vote along with you?
If nobody votes, then they can't lie to us and say we voted for someone or something.

But that's idealistic thinking that is unrealistic.

AND SO ARE YOUR PROTESTS!!

Stop trying to turn the fucking world into what you think is right. Do what you can by affecting change on a personal level, then in your circle of family and friends. "Vote" with your checkbook.
Buy local. Avoid shopping at major retailers and stop buying goods produced by big factories.
It's not impossible, but I'll tell you right now, it's gonna be a real pain in the dick to do that and still be able to function in the modern world.

Stop trying to change the entire world to make everyone see your point of view. Because it will never happen. I for one, will never agree with everything you have to say. And the failure to change one is a failure to change everyone. Stop trying to create the ideal world.
It will never happen.
Instead, why not try to achieve some reasonable change for you and your family?

And stop occupying my precious time.