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perhaps you're right about the inner tensions existing pre-9/11. I'm dubious of this since there were also two other big counter-summits after 9/11. Biggest one being maybe Quebec, tho I guess you were more in the know than the dumb alienated college dude I was back in the days!

The years that followed were most revealing of that movement... since many of its composition were liberal yuppies that have went up the social ladder with their self-serving "small is beautiful" paradigm, that ended up being capital-building through small business and grassroots eco-projects. Now we can get the outlook of its failure, though yuppie urbanites, bourgie artists and bourgie hippies fully pushing these nice eco-social-capitalist projects for the benefit of their own classist interests.

I liked that pipe-dreaming predominating in the atmosphere back in the days, all the way to roughly 2006-2007, but we know how this was just a nice glitter sprayed in our faces.This movement was undermined by being basically one big tent comprising far too conflicting interests that couldn't make it hold up. This whole crowd and their aspirations, they're done. They entered the system full swing, and their reformism was the swing. One could have shouted at them a million times how they're reformist fools, but they wouldn't listen, as this new golden State is providing them with cool jobs to feed their families. Now I know why I never really got along with this new generation of do-gooders with a social conscience.