Since I resumed blogging (mainly, to help figure out what OWS was all about), I’ve been suspicious of OWS. Granted, dissecting the media’s seemingly endless capacity for subverting, distorting, and plain lying, is an occupation that tends toward cynicism, and granted that our own experience of  activism, right and left, has left us disenchanted. Even so, the evidence of stage management and planning seems to leap out at one.

Take this report on OWS posted at Forbes this morning (October 19) that tells us that, just by happenstance, of course, the third and final episode of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, “Dark Knight Rising” is set to film in Manhattan, New York in two weeks time, thus bringing OWS into the film as backdrop.  I will for now, just point out that “Knight” and “Night” are homophones, and both convey messages that the mainstream media would like to impress on our collective consciousness”

Night (darkness, fear, the abyss, barbarism, collapse)

and

Knight (savior, messiah, nobility,  rescue, war, battle).

I  will also point out that the plot of the movie centers around Batman’s fight against the criminal underground of the city of Gotham, and one of the messages of the movie (I got this only from a cursory glance of reviews) is that the citizens “need” their dark knight. There is just too much other symbolism being evoked around this movement for me to accept it at face value.

Libertarians and Tea-Partiers can join all day long, but I doubt they will be the leading voices when action is taken, and they will simply serve as props to legitimize the movement, confuse people as to what libertarianism is, fool the naive into thinking that “End the Fed” is the end of tyranny rather than just the end of one phase of it – the end of the Fed as a semi-private institution and its nationalization.

“Perhaps they will be portrayed as citizens demanding the truth about Harvey Dent’s actions in the previous movie The Dark Knight (Batman, of course, famously took the blame for Dent’s crimes in that film, and there’s a lot of speculation that the secret about Harvey Dent will be revealed to Gotham in the new film).

Then again, maybe there’s just some unspecified background protest going on at City Hall or elsewhere in Gotham City, and the protests won’t factor into the main plot at all. That’s doubtful, though, since we know the film involves the city being overrun with chaos and massive battles taking place all around town. So it would seem to make sense that the protests will be related to the storyline, in some fashion or another.

Warner Bros. has tried to keep a tight lid on the filming for The Dark Knight Rises, but they haven’t seemed able to stop a constant flow of on-set photos and amateur videotaping of location shoots from hitting the Internet. Meaning it’s likely that if the Occupy Wall Street protesters are indeed part of the movie’s shooting schedule, we’ll find out just as soon as the filming begins.”