Occupy Wall Street: An interview with Kalle Lasn, the man behind it all - BlogPost - The Washington Post

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Q. Do you see the protests in a way as similar to the movement of the 1960s?

"Occupy Wall Street" protesters in Zuccotti Park. (Andrew Burton - AP) A. Absolutely. I lived through the 1960s, and I was part of that movement which erupted in hundreds of campuses around the world. These protests are very analogous. There’s suddenly a strange, magical occupation in Zuccotti Park, and it inspires occupations around the world, and it’s inspired by people who look into the future and think it doesn’t compute.

But the difference is in the 1960s it was people bored to tears with their parents running the world in a boring, banal way. They wanted to live their live their life to the hilt. They wanted to live without “dead time.” This time it’s much more serious, the consequences are much heavier, and the stakes higher.

Occupy Wall Street: An interview with Kalle Lasn, the man behind it all - BlogPost - The Washington Post