"As you may have seen on the blog (http://biiwii.blogspot.com/2011/10/revolution-willnot-be-televised.html) I managed to squeeze in a visit to OB on Saturday. As you might also have noticed, I received some negative feedback on my reporting. Now, out in the blogging world, you can hear from all types – from the incredibly intelligent to the downright lunatic and scary. This gentleman is intelligent, thoughtful and also an NFTRH subscriber.
NFTRH subscribers pay me for my thoughts and I take that with the utmost seriousness because it is just an awesome thing to realize people might think highly enough of you to care that much about what you have to say.
Unfortunately in this case however, what appeared on the blog – complete with the
humor – is what I came away from OB with. Maybe I have been down in this hole for
too long and somewhat desensitized to what is going on out there in macro. I don’t
know. But I came away pretty much empty.
I went there not knowing what to expect, but hoping to become engaged and that is
simply not what happened. I was disappointed and just as I used to tell my wife how
alone I always felt as I carried the information (interpreted through my own distinctly
colored lens I suppose) that came from an economic consciousness raising, I felt alone
again yesterday.
Now, do I have some preordained right to the truth, to be right? No, not at all. But as a
reporter and a human with a certain belief system, I was not engaged. It was as simple as
that. Occupy Boston as currently formed, will probably not be taken very seriously in my
opinion. The messages were too varied and too mixed. This is no comment on OWS or
any other of the global occupations."
NFTRH158 Out now.
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