Despite the impressive attendance figures and a self monitored discipline remarkable for what amounts to a vastly successful non violent flash mob as of yet still without visible hierarchy or organizing principles, the sheer novelty of the Occupy Wall Street approach first disquieted the guardians of the fourth estate. Reporters bound by the traditions of a different age were habitually unsuited to limn the boundaries of an amorphous bottom up philosophy that so inextricably blended logical and detailed requests for, say, meaningful student loan debt settlement legislation with an anarcho Marxist structural foundation, and cable networks hardly knew where to point a camera amidst a roiling membership that saw fashion forward dilettantes and hyper aggressive born instigators marching lockstep with the palpably earnest true believers common to every socially progressive cause in living memory.

From the start, traditional journalists shied away from any sort of thorough investigation or illustration of a movement that consciously resisted easy categorization, and, given the peculiar constraints of their largely outdated code, one almost feels sorry for the esteemed members of the press. Most social activism, after all, attempted to work with the pre-existing media blueprints to facilitate the propagation of simply encapsulated messages and employ catchy slogans tailor made for blurbs and headlines as spur toward clearly articulated demands from the government. With Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand, the endless array of signs foisted about the financial districts of American cities explore a vast range of different remedies that run the gamut of perspectives from orthodox Democrat dogma to radicalized transformative ideological warfare tantamount to an overthrow of the republic.

To a certain extent, of course, the ineffable mish mash of barely articulated demands of the broadly eclectic men and women camping out across the nation appears to be a garish cartoon of progressive excess as complaints contradict one another in succession, calls for action demonstrate a complete ignorance of governmental procedure, and the keening emotions invoked represent the enemy of prudent governmental action or economic maneuverings. As the number of demonstrators to be interviewed by trained reporters engaged by professional news gathering organizations increased, though, and thoughtful and well spoken subjects were singled out for their view, a certain shared vision for evening societal assets through unilateral debt settlement could be discerned through the haze of personalized messages.

It's important to remember that the men and women filling the streets to promote issues as idiosyncratic or whimsical as to be wholly beyond the auspices of governmental change are somewhat consciously attempting to counter the militaristic unanimity with which the Tea Party fringe of the Republican Party has framed the parameters of discourse. For that matter, much as the protesters implicitly acknowledge how crucial electoral politics will be for any enduring adjustments, the focus of the Occupy Wall Streetmovement has always been the multinational corporations and financial citadels that have fueled our culture's addiction to credit card debt and constructed a popular mythology condemning effective methods of credit card debt relief. Avoid bankruptcy privations or the eternal serfdom promised by monthly minimums, the OWS demonstrators shriek in a hundred thousand different voice, and instead allow the one percent a final chance to make amends.