What if everybody across the globe sat in at McDonald's occupying each empty seat or space within the building holding an animal, or potted plant, refusing to buy anything, but just stood or sat there, with nothing but smiles and good conversations all around. Would the people working be fed up, call authorities, would big media try and pan in over the controversy and confusion? Would McDonald's buy their way out of being covered by big media? Probably, I mean the Olympics for f**ks sake is sponsored by this god awful place that we all have carried guilt from after eating a chicken nugget or big mac. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS GLOBALIZED WORLD?!
I guess we could think of more creative ways of trying to occupy a space because let's face it, people love their McDonald's, and people indulge in that guilt...well because...sometimes it's an unnecessary necessity on a Friday night or on a road trip or after a break up, you feel me?
I say down with McDonald's, Walmart, Kentucky Fried Chicken, maybe even Taco Bell...(maybe) but, let's face it Domino's, Pizza Hut, Subway, Popeye's, Kmart, etc.etc.etc. creates this alienation from people-to-people, people-to-soul, people-to-nature-- this weird awkward fantasy of eating YUMMY food (food, yeah right I worked at Subway and there was about 7 other ingredients in the steak, other than the word steak) and HAVING NECESSARY THINGS. I preach and I know it, but if people only were educated and sought sustainable agriculture and sustainability within their lives then people wouldn't be reduced to working over 40 hrs a week at these corporations getting minimum wage just to get by and adding to this weird, materialistic, hopeless society that we live in by being a main contributor to it.
My roommate and I were talking tonight actually about this topic of 'occupying' or trying to change a specific disruption within our global pattern. What if everybody had to go vegan for a day? How exactly would that impact the world? It's a creative disruption because I believe that people ARE TOO-INDULGENT and honestly, myself included, do not understand the specific impacts we are having on the environment and ourselves.
THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS TO OCCUPY, but I know me and countless others are thinking, "HOW?" and "WHERE?"
That my friend seems like a matter of importance and will and thought.
I guess we have to look at the things that matter most to us. Like Eyon Biddle said, he is confused as to why United State's youth is not so concerned about high tuition costs and the result of never-ending student loans, only letting our passivity take control of our here and now, and truly not planning for the future.
There are countries where education is
free.
FREE.
Seriously, Wikipedia has listed over 37 countries that have free post-secondary education including Brazil, Germany, and India, and including China looking at policies trying to transition to a free education nation as well. This is important. This is huge. America doesn't want it. WHY.
If we only could create an up-rise, a movement, a 'something' that mattered to people because a lot of people really aren't standing for anything these days besides the hit songs they hear on the radio supporting misogyny and a way of life that is totally unattainable and unhealthy for any human being. I want to shake society and people and make them wake up, it disgusts me (preachin' again)
Alright alright, so I am pretty much ALL TALK. I have ideas. I don't know how to begin and where to begin like I've iterated. It's a matter of creating a people that come together willing to live for changing something that has a valid impact on their lives.
In Milwaukee, maybe there are ways we can come together as a whole to make this city we live in a better place. What really matters? In my eyes what really matters is sustainability, safe walking environments and bike paths, local owners and growers, diversity glorified, women free from sexual assault, people coming together to make the city more beautiful.
Maybe that could be a beginning? Maybe if Milwaukee had one big day where the community comes together, East side for example, and painting a huge mural together, letting art encompass the diversity without constrains." Art-- what's that going to do?" some may say....and then we could respond with "Ya, be jealous you don't live in a city that allows every person to come together and make their mark on their own city they live in."
It doesn't have to be art, but that's just a start, a start of remembering that we are people and citizens, not aliens that treat each other like aliens because we are so muffled up in our god damned business every day that we forget we are all people of the same kind!
Art is a way and means of coming together to create....
....as we are learning that all forms of art can be used in creating an activist approach especially performance.
So, my ideas are mush. melded. their all wrapped up in my brain. we complain day to day about the things that hurt us and the things that 'make life hard.' Maybe some don't complain at all? Maybe they are passive, and O.K. with the way things are, or are uneducated...a sad reality of our day and age.
It's these things I wonder about, and it's this society sometimes I worry about.
Sarah
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Also, there is a poem I've posted below if you have the time to watch the video.
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