Funny, true stuff:

5. There may not be a reason to share your cake. It is, after all, yours. You probably baked it yourself, in an oven of your own construction with ingredients you harvested yourself. It may be possible to keep your entire cake while explaining to any nearby hungry people just how reasonable you are.

6. Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they’ve been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

Read the whole thing. (Also relevant is the OccupyWriters page.)

5 replies on “Lemony Snicket on Occupy Wall Street”

  1. “7. Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.”

    That’s not right. Thirsty is a physical thing, that can be measured and fixed. Feeling ‘wronged’ is just someone’s messy emotion, that may or may not have anything to do with reality.

  2. Reymont, I think the point is that feeling wronged is like feeling thirsty in that denial will not make the feeling go away. Good nitpicking, though.

  3. Reymont, if you feel wronged and I tell you that you don’t have a right to feel that way, would you believe it? Of course not. Also, that would make me an asshole. Get it?

  4. Nothing you do can make me feel wronged, or make it better if I do. It’s a feeling! I’m the only one with control of them.

    @guspasho – Why would that make you an asshole? You might be right. Just because I feel it doesn’t make it true.

  5. This whole article seems like the opposite of the ‘eye for an eye makes the whole world blind’ argument. He’s saying that we should keep sacrificing until everyone FEELS like they have a fair share, whether they deserve it or not. But feelings aren’t reasonable, or accurate – that is a never ending road.

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