Is this what democracy looks like? No really, is it? Because if it is, well then, this is sorta awkward.When members of an Occupy faction interrupted a sparsely populated City Council meeting in Northampton, Massachusetts earlier this month, they knew the cameras would be rolling. What they didn’t seem to realize is that barging late into a routine town hearing on snow removal, among other things, is probably not the best way to really land that “mic check” meme, to this point (and especially now that all flagship occupied sites have been evicted) a critical component of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s decision making and publicity engines.You just couldn’t write this sort of thing. It’s an uneasy bit of civil exchange. It almost seems canned — and with cuts between multiple public access cameras that pan across faces, more the stuff of sketch comedy than constructive dialogue for building a new society.Read the rest at Motherboard.
