Well I did  read the  rest of the New Yorker article mentioned in my first blog. I sort of dislike the term blog... it sounds like fog with a cold..What did I learn  in the end? The reporter  interviewed  many "facilitators" leader -less leaders, of the occupation in  NYC.He also witnessed a lot of the activity he writes about: the Wall St occupiers confronted with a homeless, rage filled man who lives in the park they are occupying, who rightly  tells them they are tourists on his home turf...Sage the homeless guy is also incorporated into their horizontal  decision making process, and he votes and he has a say, since this is the whole point or part of the point of this democratic-  anarchist- socialist- amorphous movement. Reality and the Utopians who are fighting for it are now face to to face.!!Great material here for a play! The thing that struck me was the slightly snide and nasty tone the reporter took towards this  homeless man called Sage... : he implies that Sage is the sort of person who could not get a job even if he wanted to,and that people like him actually wasted a lot of the time of the rest of the real cadre.. real anarchists  etc, who were oh so busy with meetings and voting and elaborate hand motioning.... 

I felt I was witnessing the  rebirth of another form of government, and given a few years.. it too would be rife with charismatic non leader- leaders..It is inevitable.It seems to be an ancient human trait  for some humans to rise above the rest, and of course history bears this out. But how could it be arranged so that it does not  get out of hand?A question many occupiers are also asking.Because we do live in an instantaneous age, as things unfold they are already being written or tweeted or emailed messaged about, perhaps even before the  full scope of the events have naturally evolved...There are the from- the- distance. controller- manipulators, of this uprising, and then there are the front -line soldiers.. many of them women,who are trying to find (and are  finding) new ways to create  real change in the way people  try to get things done,in non hierarchical ways.Collective decision making making makes  me think of an untainted and pure form of Communism.

But what is communism in essence? Maybe thousands of years ago humans needed to share  resources and protect themselves  from saber toothed cats and might have lived in small communes.. Maybe its again a very natural response that humans and other animals have to the problems of food, sex and safety.Maybe on the other hand this new movement is the beginning of a newer- way for humans to operate.Maybe governments as they operate are now obsolete..?. 

Maybe humans interact so fast and so constantly with each other now that no one needs to be in charge any more...It was striking how there were no leaders as such in Libya or Egypt, or if there were they were so assimilated into and so part of the crowds that they flowed back and forth between being decision makers and followers.Also has the age of the macho leader passed?And is it more natural for people to make choices and decisions based on their local needs,while at the same time not loosing their sense of larger community? Now that the world is round and small again maybe politics as we know it has changed forever. Amen to that....;-0.