<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Nothing for a year and then two posts in a day, must be something in the air! I love Douglas Rushkoff, and I can't help but share this as well.</div><div><br></div><div>There isn't the same whiff of desperation in the air in Australia and New Zealand, but we need to listen because it's just a matter of time.</div><div><br></div><div>Adam.</div><div><br></div><img src="cid:A9CB9F7F-2188-4187-AD9A-3A3AB759C371" alt="image.jpeg" id="A9CB9F7F-2188-4187-AD9A-3A3AB759C371" width="631" height="419"><div><br><div>Source: <a href="http://www.rushkoff.com/blog/2011/11/13/occupy-reality-transcript.html">http://www.rushkoff.com/blog/2011/11/13/occupy-reality-transcript.html</a></div><div><br></div><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; "><em>People have been asking for a transcript of the little speech I gave at Occupy Wall Street on Wenesday November 9. It amounts to a one-page summary of my book Life Inc. (In other words, if you wonder how any of this could be true, read the book for the full story and documentation. I won't argue it out here.)</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">My name is Douglas Rushkoff<br>I am humbled and honored to be amplified by your voices. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">You are not fighting against people, but against a machine.<br>It was put in place over 500 years ago.<br>By a wealthy elite - trying to repress a booming peer to peer economy.<br>Those people are all dead, but their program lives on. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">They invented an operating system called central currency. <br>People who used to trade directly, <br>were now forced to borrow money from the king's bank.<br>At interest.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">The elite also invented software for that operating system.<br>It was called the chartered monopoly. Today we call it the corporation. <br><br>It is a program designed to extract value. <br>It has legal monopoly over its industries. <br>We are legally prohibited from creating and exchanging value<br>unless we do it through the corporation. <br>We cannot work unless we have a "job." </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">We outsource our work, we outsource our savings, we outsource our borrowing, we outsource our investing - all instead of sourcing one another. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">This 13th Century, printing-press era operating system <br>is incompatible with a 21st Century economy. <br>It is broken and dying. But it is still <span>occupying</span> our reality. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">Too many are mistaking this operating system - for the way things are. <br>They see the Occupy Movement as the impediment. <br>No. <br>We are not asking for wealth to be redistributed. <br>We are asking for the redistribution to STOP. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">The Long Extraction is Over. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">The peer to peer society is back. <br>We are ready to create and exchange value as people. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">They say that the Occupy Movement has no leadership. <br>They are wrong. <br>You <span>are</span> the leaders</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">The rest of us are your followers. <br>What you do here - shows what we can do out there. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">You are the classroom - we are the students</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">You are the experiment - we are the results. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">You are the proposition - we are the resolution. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 300; ">If you can sleep under tarps <br>the rest of us can tell your story to our children at bedtime</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; ">If you can resist the cops.<br>The rest of us can resist the market and the mall </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; ">If you can live on shared food <br>The rest of us can buy and grow local crops </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; ">If you can live with no money<br>The rest of us can start using alternative currencies </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; ">If you can stand firm in the streets<br>The rest of us can stand firm in our foreclosed homes<br>and stand with our neighbors in theirs. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; ">If you can occupy Zucotti Park<br>The rest of us can occupy reality. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; ">And by that same logic:<br>As the nights get colder, <br>as the Mayor grows less tolerant, <br>or as the police get more violent, </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; "><span></span>Remember that you have already won.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; "><span></span>Whatever happens in this square, <br>the day you leave is not the day you have lost<br>it is not the day you have surrendered.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; ">It is the day you have spread out. <br>It is the day you have declared a bigger battlefield. <br>It is the day you teachers and we students become the same. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; font-weight: 300; "><span></span>It is the day we Occupy the World. </p><div style="color: rgb(62, 56, 56); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-weight: 300; "><br></div></div></body></html>