The Five Most Infantile Beliefs on Display at the ‘Occupy’ Tantrums

PJ Media ^ | November 10, 2011 | Staff

[QT3.14]

What we have here are the biggest, baddest public temper tantrums we’ve seen since 1960s spoiled-brat college kids reverted to the terrible twos and marched, rioted, burned, and bombed their way across America.

So far at least, the violence at “Occupy” tantrums hasn’t reached ’60s-level, though there have been thefts, assaults, rapes, and lots – and lots and lots – of incendiary hate speech.

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[QT3.14]

Henry Hazlitt explains OWS quite clearly:

“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects – his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.”

[KarlInOhio]

At the ongoing OWS tantrums, we daily see video and read news reports of physical grown-ups taking bullhorns in hand to shout inanities like: “The rich have cooties! And their cooties can kill you!”

Let's check where head and body lice are spreading more: tea parties or the occupiers. And I wouldn't be surprised to see if the occupiers "cooties" start spreading typhus soon because of their close quarters and absent hygiene.

[thatdewd]

All of these disaffected people are WAY too in touch with their inner toddler.

[eggman]

Obama is their Peter Pan President. They never want to grow up and he is more than happy to keep them acting like spoiled children with promises of more goodies taken from the rich.

[Conservative4Ever]

Yeah, makes you want to kick it’s little a$$.

[YJIeditor]

For a detailed look at the Occupy Portland camp, check out Talon Bronson’s analysis here: http://tinyurl.com/7x6hsas

[Publius6961]

If you neglected to go to the link, you're missing a beautiful example of the losing position that non-radicals meekly embrace for themselves in the reason vs emotion eternal battle, both socially and politically.

The gorilla suit.

It is among the comments following the main article.

I have witnessed many other examples almost daily and have always been at a loss on how effectively to describe the event. Of course, the "appeal to presumed emotion" will always default to what is so succinctly described. But the bulk of society must reject the victim status always inferred by the practitioners of the all-purpose gorilla suit.