#OccupyDigest - Thursday, September 29, 2011

By D.J. Raspe - DJRaspy.com

As I sit here writing this particular entry in the #OccupyDigest, a song is playing through my computer speakers.  It is this song.  Here.  Download it .  Listen to it while you read this entry.  It will help to put this all into perspective, while I relate to you a peculiar analogy which has come to me...

Flag of the 2nd American Revolution - 2011The song you are hearing right now, written between 1916 and 1918 by master Composer Gustav Holst during a time of great upheaval known in that day as "The Great War", is called "Saturn: The Bringer of Old Age".  But it has another name, a nickname.  It nickname is "Saturn: Guardian of Time", so called because of the central theme of this piece follows the rhythm of a swinging pendulum, as upon a clock. 

It is an appropriate song to play, while writing this post in the #OccupyDigest.  Why, you might ask?  Because Time is ever a key factor in any Revolution, including the one which I am attempting to curate in these #OccupyDigest posts. And, even without the subtle yet apprehensive beauty of Holst's symphonic pendulum swinging back and forth in the background, Time is ever on my mind, as it is no doubt on the minds of many within the #Occupy Movement.

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Your vote: How much does it matter?

The year is 2012.  Well, not yet.  But it soon will be, in a matter of a few short months. During that year, the various and diverse peoples of the United States will be treated to a veritable media onslaught of politicians pandering, news-media pundits spinning, and election campaign committees organizing, all in the hope that, in November of Aught Twelve, you, the good ol' Amurrican voter, will go to the polls and vote for them. 

I want YOU (to vote even though we're going to just elect who we want to anyways.)Because whether they're right-wing or left-wing, Republican or Democrat, they want your vote. 

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