Was it a failure or wasn't it - the question that is now being asked. I keep coming across that one person who paints the Occupy Movement as "lazy" or "confused". How can you seriously say that a collective of people, with different backgrounds, not making a singular demand is lazy? It is confused to want a dialogue of ideals to be boiled down to one point. If you have ever sat down with a friend, or yourself and wondered about what would make the world a better place then you can sympathize with the Occupy protesters whose various ideas range from the economic, social and ultimately environmental spheres. There is no standard answer to poverty, resource depletion, recession, pollution, climate change, the growing gap between rich and poor etc. The very existence of the Movement across the world subjects it to differing political, economic, social, and ecological realities. These separate camps are not going to agree on the specifics but they do have a shared ideal.
The success of the Occupy movement is in it's acceptance of complexity. The world is full of diversity, yet the status quo to problem solving has been standardization. The Occupy movement presents a new process.
I'd like to propose an image to symbolize what I understand the movement to stand for and that is an economy which functions within the needs of society, both of which exist within the natural limits of the Earth.
An image is not bound by the same limitations of language, and hopefully this one could serve the Occupy Movement well.
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