by David B. Brooks   

In the mid 60's my photography studio was between Sunset and Hollywood Blvd. in the middle of the Peace Revolution. Being from the Beat generation before I was not a part of it, but might as well have been as it was unavoidable, every aspect of it the songs, the dancing, the style . It was a culture as much apart from the society I grew up in as possible.

But Occupy is not that kind of revolution although what this new generation is objecting to are the same values the young people of the 60's revolted against and subsequently lost to regressive conservatives.

It is interesting that the music and poetry of rock and roll lives on in American culture but the freedom and liberty from being ruled by money and power is still elusive. And now the protesters have forgotten that singing and dancing in the streets expresses the joy of being a free human being, of not being a slave to a machine.

The minions of money and government remain shielded in their cocoons of blindness and deafness in NY and DC and will not acknowledge the rest of America is suffering. In 2012 as the idiocy of political campaigns is in full swing, it may be time for the people to revolt and say enough of this sadness and despair. Maybe we will sing and dance in the streets as we should have been able to do since the 60's.