Just watched the video of the pepper spray incident at UC Davis.  Made me wonder what would happen if all of the time and energy dedicated to the OWS movement had been given to charities instead.  What if the hours, days, weeks that have been spent camping out in city capitols across America had been used to plant a garden, read a child a book, redistribute food, build a home, clear waste, or the dozens of other projects going on in this country that provide tangible, albeit small-scale differences for people in need.  Of course, there isn’t much glory in that kind of work, and perhaps more significantly it isn’t much of an outlet to express anger.  I think it’s great that there is such a large and visible physical manifestation of economic inequality, but it is foolish to think that those involved are out for anyone but themselves, which doesn’t make them all that much different from those they are protesting.  Last night a good friend of mine said; raise the minimum wage to $15 and give every one of them a job and the movement will disappear.  But poverty will continue, hell most of the rest of the world has been living in poverty for decades (if not longer) and most of us have never raised a finger.  If we don’t think of life as consisting of every human being equally, not ourselves above the rest, then what change are we capable of achieving?  At most a change of guard, but the same old house remains, built on a foundation that we all are a part of whether we acknowledge it or not.