Occupy Everything vs. The Tea Party

Like many bourgeois “revolutions” in the name of the status quo, the Tea Party dressed up in the clothes of the past: 1773 to be precise, when even the North had slaves. The sight of middle aged white people dressed in three cornered hats and so on filled me with horror.

The aesthetics of Occupy Wall St. (and elsewhere now) are in stark contrast to this. People are wearing what they wear. This is a spontaneous blow against spectacular politics.