Motus Mentis

One melodic voice in the complex polyphony of the “OWS” uprising is the lament of the young college grads who, despite their hard-earned degrees in important fields of study, today find themselves laden with scholastic debt and unable to descry a clear path to prosperity. It’s terribly unfair: they’ve done what they were supposed to do, but the System, which is blatantly rigged against “the 99%” in favor of an entrenched plutocracy, has failed them.

They demand Social Justice, by any means necessary.

Meanwhile, a fellow by the name of Shawn Carter — a young black man who, abandoned by his father, was raised in a housing project in one of the worst inner-city districts in the country, dropped out of high school to pursue an interest in rap music, and who is now better known as the music- and fashion-industry mogul ‘Jay-Z’, husband of the R&B siren Beyoncé — will be selling “Occupy Wall Street”-themed t-shirts.

Mr Carter will be keeping the proceeds. He is worth an estimated $450 million.

The “moral of the story”? As Satchmo famously said: “Man, if you have to ask, you’ll never know.”