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However tired you may be of hearing about the Occupy movement, you have to be impressed with its scale and scope. What started as a camp-out in a small park near Wall Street has spread to cities around the world. It may seem stagnant now, but these marches and city encampments certainly placed “the 99 percent” issue irretrievably into the headlines.
The history of the protest movement seems to fit neatly into the concept of “emergence.” One individual – whether it be a person, a business or an ant – is pretty powerless and even witless. But when a few individuals start banding together or accidentally discovering the same things, new knowledge can be gained and big changes can occur. The whole is indeed sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts.
