Occupy Wall Street can be a values revolution

Don’t Mistake Occupy Wall Street for Team Obama | Common Dreams: "But they don’t own Occupy Wall Street anymore. That was evident Thursday morning, when the encampment began to fill with even more arrivals. And some of the new faces showing up in Zuccotti seem more representative of the working-class angst gripping the country."

Nietzsche correctly said that the task of all creative human beings is the revaluation of values. We can see this as skewering the values that have reigned hitherto. Among these is honor, which has become the talisman of competition, warfare and hierarchy. Those who seek a different focus turn not to specific religions but to the universal perspectives found in persons who are the antiphon of honor and other "manly virtues". One derives from such an exploration the values of non-idolatry, tolerance, democracy and helpfulness, a quadrilateral cluster of values which remain true whether one accepts them or not. They roll back nominalism and concede a place for eternal verities. And for the eventual triumph of reason. We have progress apace even in a world where hysteria is easily manufactured and even encouraged by our corporate advertisers. But the revolution underway will "honor" to the nomads of the universe who embrace no platform save these values and insist that the world conform to them in all that is done. A values revolution!


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