That's great, but no.

Last night I found myself sitting in a public park with hundreds of other people trying hear and 80 year old man talk over an improvised PA system in the middle of a busy city while at the same time trying to keep every muscle in my body from seizing up. Noam Chomsky came to speak to Occupy Boston last night. We tried standing up first, but no one more than 20 feet away could hear over the din, and every couple of minutes someone would yell to turn it up or initiate a mic check to achieve the same goal. Once everyone subjected themselves to sitting down, the sound was allowed to travel a little further, and I could make out most of what the man had to say. Unfortunately I couldn't really paraphrase it for you unless I could watch it again on youtube, which I'm sure will be easy enough sometime soon.

After people started to file out of the camp in post-concert manner, an impromptu march began. Around 200 people joined in and we wove through downtown, and crashed the colonnade a Quincy Market and Hanover Street in the North End. There was the requisite chanting of the usual slogans about the 99% and such, along with one new to me, "we are unstoppable, another world is possible." A great sentiment, if a little rosy and hippy-like.

I have mixed feelings about such slogans, along with signs that just say "LOVE" and others like them. The thing about them is it's a wonderful idea that really would make the world a better place Unfortunately it all sounds so incredibly lame, and no one will ever be convinced by it.