This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness, short-term calculation, withered idealism and intellectual bankruptcy that American mass society has become. IMO, at the root of the OWS movement is not only a desire for justice, or a desire to stop being abused, but also a powerful rejection of simplicity. As so much in the US has been commercialized, from our education to our news, everything has been poisoned with message. We get canned discussion, canned philosophy, and canned solutions. Every fucking thing that touches money has become a matter of creating a message and sticking to that message. OWS isn't trying to figure out its message. It has a large number of them, and they are complicated. Fuck the media if it's not designed to process that. IMO, Taibbi is wrong about this: Eventually the Occupy movement will need to be specific about how it wants to change the world. OWS doesn't need to be specific. Any thinking person (as Taibbi demonstrates himself in this article), can tease out some very meaningful conclusions from OWS. OWS doesn't need to react to the dehumanization and mockery of talking head shills. It can't. That would be discussing philosophy with a parrot. The media has no ears for OWS. Taibbi is getting warmer, but he's not there just yet.