Kalle Lasn, Founder and Editor of Adbusters, a radical anti-consumerism magazine, is also the founder of Occupy Wall Street along with his protegee Micah White. His magazine came up with the suggestion and idea of camping out, the best place to do it, the name of the project, and the date to start. He may have been very surprised but it actually happened. The end game was for the protestors to throw a party, vacate the premises, and declare victory. Police Action preempted any chance of that happening. For anyone interested in reading more about this social phenomenon, look up "Pre-Occupied" in the New Yorker. Experimental Philosophers are late to the game but for sociology, cultural anthropology, and political buffs there's plenty of grist for the mill.
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