Mockupy

There is a "spontanious" and "young" movement happening in America and in other parts of the world right now.  It is referred to as Occupy Wall Street.  Well, that is where it originated and now there are several other locations all going with their own specific name.  I just heard today that there is even something happening in St. George.  Seriously?  Yes, Occupy St. George. 

I don't exactly know what the movement is because the movement itself is a bit confused.  The groups are made up of young people that have reached a stage in life where they have reached certain levels of education or whatever but are not doing anything else.  They are waiting for someone to hand them something and have decided to congregate in an effort to try and obtain some sort of hand out.  Again I don't know all the details as I really don't care and don't have a lot of time for this stuff but have picked up that a lot of these kids have simply been given everything and are at a point where they need to now do something for themselves but must not know how. 

Last night I mentioned Helicopter Parents and this may be a direct result of a generation where many parents hovered around there kids and simply gave, gave, gave everytime they needed something, or stepped in and defended ill behavior rather then allowing the lesson of personal responsibilty to be learned.  I am not an expert in these things, just throwing out my own quick assessment.

So I have been joking around about starting our own Occupy movement.  Occupy the Little Brick House.  It would be a mockumentary on the entire thing and we would simply come up with some silly things to do, record them and post them on YouTube.  Just for fun.  We thought maybe we would go and Occupy the red box machine at Wal-Mart.  News came today that they are increasing their overnight rental fee by twenty cents.  That is rediculous.  They should have lowered it by twenty cents.  This is just the top 1% getting wealthier while the rest of us scrape the barrel.  We would sit infront of the red box and not allow anyone else to use them until the prices would either return to original levels or be dropped or until a price increase takes place at the local Burger King and we have to rush over to occupy their place.  Kind of dumb, I know.  Exactly how I feel about the other.

I actually think a serious mockumentary where I discuss starting a business, working your butt off and making hardly any money.  Ultimately take a view of this is where we are starting, this is where we are going and we are not looking for freebies or handouts.  Sure, we would love to have people come and occupy our business, buy our products and invest in our business that way.  We will gladly redistribute wealth from thier account to ours when they invest in what we have to offer.

I think about the generation of now.  Nobody wants to put in the time.  We have to have the nice house now, the fancy cars now, the latest gadget now.  Rather then working and laboring a lifetime to earn and achieve these things we should be able to start out with them immediately.  Sorry, that is not how it works.  By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat they bread...  THY BROW.  We have to go and do, we have to put forth the effort.  We have to know that sometimes that means we go without certain luxeries.  Funny enough, true joy in this life is not found in the things you have. 

Well, I have rambled on, It is late and I am not able to articulate things very well.  I don't know that any Mockupy Mockumentary will come out any time soon.  But I may start calling our new Frequent Diner Card our official Occupy The Little Brick House rewards card.  We'll see.