The Occupy Wall Street Movement: Is there a possibility of Change?

Let me start by the reality of the matter, although, we have seen profound social transformations in many parts of the world, as exemplified by the Arabic Spring; - most societies are changing, but the structures of power are staying the same. Our so called Social Democracy, and its institutions, are indeed the status quo, and our "democracy" became dangerously connected, and to be more explicit, more  dependent of the so called "Special Interests" which will fight any changes into the current "democratic" system. Someone, might argue that although, deficient, our Democratic System still the best considering the complexity of the human enterprise, and they might be right.

The Political System itself became a hindrance to the evolution of the Social System. Evolution, in this sense, can not only be understood, solely, as the random transformation of the system, but as a rational and designed project. Randomness alone, indeed, will not lead us to the future that we want, it is necessary a vision of the future, and that's where the smog is blinding the social struggle manifested into the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The future in my view is not connected to the traditional forms of powers, vis-a-vis government and financial systems, but to peripheral and localized experiences of human emancipation.

Our Societies are the intertwined of a very complex system of reproduction and self-preservation, and, in this sense, there is very little to be done in the endevour of promoting Social Change. The transformation will be limited. The quality of the transformation, however, might expand to something new, and that's what the OWS movement should focus. We must resist the dehumanization process.

If we understand evolution, only as limited to the biological sense, we are in serious problems. What makes us human is the capacity to consciously intervene into the direction of history.

The system itself can not be thought in linear terms, meaning, that we can not think the economy/political system as something that responds to some sort of linear relationship of cause and effect. It will always brings with it a high level of noise. The Political System will not responds to our Social Demands, because we are choosing, and by this I mean every single individual, a way of life that is focused in the exponential dependence of new and faster information.

We, as societies, are turning governments and economies, into unsustainable social systems. Developing Countries are aggressively seeking to reproduce the same patterns of industrial platform used by the developed countries.

The slogan "jobs, jobs, jobs" became the rule of thumb for an ideal social development, but, what is it  behind of such a view ? The concept "jobs" is something of a historical dimension, and we live in a world of fast pace production, destruction, disposal and re-creation of new demands. We are putting ourselves in this pace. We are humans not machines.

We have incorporated every new technology in our daily lives, and much has being lost. We can't express ourselves anymore with out a computer, without the internet. It seems that reality itself has not existence, unless its full transformation is completed by the digitalization of our actions. The digital world is sucking all of us into its reality.

The traditional institutions are using of new models of Social Control; the Virtual World, became the way by which the population is quantified and analysed. There is an explosion on the demand of extremely powerful servers, or in other words, into the formation and expansion of Cloud Computing. Since the tech-industries are the front-runners of the capitalist society, little is left into the possibility of slowing the process of social growing.

We are becoming faster, but with that, we also are expanding the chances of expansion of noise and disorder into the system. There is an ultimate problem with this situation, the system has to expand itself permanently in order to survive. The patent disputes among the mega tech-companies is just the beginning of a process where much is lost and transformed.

We are moving to an age where every aspect of our existence will be connected to the virtual world. When our information is being quantified and transformed into value for the merchandise world. The Down Jones and its financial system is what really controls the world, and the strength of a company is more and more connected with its capacity of retain, and produce new cycles of consumerism, in terms of new products and applications.

The traditional capitalism has evolved, now has many souls, connected with the different Operation Systems and its forms to organize and quantify the information around us. The Financial Systems and the Information Systems are directly connected, are depended of each other... [Work in progress]