Many of you may or may not have heard of the current Occupy Wall Street movement taking place not only in New York but throughout the country since September 17. In the simplest of terms the movement is anti-big business and is pushing for a more regulated form of capitalism. They’re pushing for this change by protesting, by occupying main streets in large cities nationwide. Now the practice of formal protesting might have been an adequate solution in the mid 1900’s but it is now the twenty-first century, and modern times call for modern solutions.

I can’t help but picture these naïve protesters chanting cheesy call-backs, reeking of sweat and stale cigarettes, while being corralled like cattle by the local law enforcement. All while the fat cats on the hundredth floor smoke imported cigars that were lit by hundred dollar bills, peering down their towering buildings and scoffing at the futility of the protesters below. It is a grim picture that isn’t that far from reality, a picture that makes it apparent that this protest is just a rag tag bunch of jobless post-grads. One can’t help but wonder if this is less of a “movement” and more of a stand still.

It’s been over three weeks and protesters are only recently overcoming a mass media blackout, barely surviving through a very minimal social media movement. The point of protesting is to raise awareness and put pressure on the opposition to attain ones demands. So far, Occupy Wall Street has done a poor job in both aspects.

What little recognition the movement is receiving is being overshadowed by the vast amount of hippies and protest nomads attracted to these types of large gatherings. Not to mention the many hipsters tweeting and instagramming on their iPhones that are supported by the recently merged AT&T/T-Mobile network, a noble stand against unregulated capitalism indeed.

The movement has no predetermined demands or expectations and is merely a cry for change, reminiscent of a certain election in 2008; the movement is simply a demand for specific answers without the presence of exact questions. Beyond Occupy Wall Street’s economic goals, it also aims towards social and political change, such as ending domestic violence, the legalization of gay marriage, amongst a battery of other issues; thus only blurring the so called organization of this movement even further.

The sheer lack of organization is will be movement’s greatest downfall in the end, without specific demands and a sense of unity to accompany said demands Occupy Wall Street is pointless. And all these protests are is a vacation from job-hunting for the many liberal-arts majors that have plagued main streets throughout America for the past month.

The only place these protests have left to go is violence, whether it be incited by the protestors or law enforcement. No good can come from occupying space, and it is extremely unlikely that these rebels without a cause are willing to make any real sacrifices in the name of a faceless movement. All we can do is urge the protestors of Occupy Wall Street to either organize quickly or retreat for the moment. It is important to remember that the road to revolution is paved with the blood and bones of both patriots and tyrants not cigarette butts and coffee.