A Facebook Chat

I was compelled to write on the Facebook page of the "occupiers" the other day, and received an interesting response. I was inspired in a way to respond in a manner that I hope helps others to grasp what is really going on. Here is the short discussion thus far. I'll post more depending on how long that goes.

My Original Post: Can you even identify any solution to the "problem" you believe exists? And by the way, I'm part of the 99%, but you DO NOT REPRESENT ME or FREEDOM for that matter! You represent spoiled rotten little brats hell bent on socialism!

Jorge: solution is abolishing money, why do we have to pay for everything?, caitalist system is unfare, maybe you have not being reached, but poverty is close to your window, open your eyes, capitalism request more profits everyday, it never gonna end, fields dead, no more fish on the sea. natural resources are not infinite. we need to restore everything, but occupy ignore this idea, they seem hippies, homeless, help them to focus about we really care. have a nice day patrick. by the way, sorry for mi english, i am learning the languaje in order to write them my ideas, but this page is like the world, each individual has a path and never see each other.

Me: Jorge, your English was just fine. However, you call capitalism unfair and I call Socialism unfair. One may define Communism as unfair. In practice, nearly every system you can imagine is unfair. First, they are unfair because people are people. We are greedy, over ambitious, and love power. That alone is enough to corrupt any system. Second, one must grow up and accept that life isn't fair. Again, due to the nature of human beings. We abuse the God-given gift of free choice to screw over our fellow man. As for poisoning the Earth, not much argument there from me, except to say that the Earth, just like people, began to die the day it was born.

You are absolutely on the spot too, that the occupiers ignore reality. They want what truly can never be achieved. They are hippies as far as they dream of what cannot be; homeless, because they choose to sit in a park with no plumbing, not showering, and hurting the small business rather than their original target on Wall Street as they deny customers' access to the local "little man"