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So I'm sitting in bed at 3am on a Saturday night, trolling the Occupy Melbourne media coverage and I realise that I am a Loser. What am I doing here? Don't I have better things to do? Apparently not.

These protests have gotten me excited. So in my still-hungover, sleep deprived state I keep hammering away at this keyboard with dwindling clarity of analysis but a growing belief that these protests will be different.

I have attended protests before. Well, one, actually. It was a depressing affair; a bunch of entitled, whiny pinkos yammering about rights and justice and the ruling class. I had come to protest what I perceived as the destructive and uncontrolled exploitation of the environment. The whole thing lacked heart. I got the feeling that people were embarrassed to be there; I sure was.

The Occupy movement addresses something we can all agree needs attention: the current global economic order. The 2006 crisis has plunged the world into economic chaos with the poor, middle and upper class as casualties: no-one has benefited from the fallout. Oh yeah, apart from bull traders betting against the market. An economic system should reward production, and the fast money on wall st was not producing so much as running around like the coked-up traders manipulating it, rocking the boat of global trade until it capsized.

We are approaching a moment in history where everything will be up for grabs. In the next 20-40 years, the world will undergo major crises and when we come out the other side it will look very different from where we are now.

Economic crisis, climate change, a restructuring of the global balance of power are all on the cards. And in my opinion, if we don't fix what needs to be fixed, it'll all come crashing down like the proverbial house. Whether its the political and civil institutions such as human & personal rights, the welfare state etc. or a materialistic paradigm that takes the fall will be seen. I don't claim to have any answers, I will merely call the current situation as I see it.

So back to why I'm writing this blog. My new Loser status necessarily entails that I give a fuck: this space is to chart my thoughts and theories of what's really going on. Stay tuned for some subversive shit.