Week 5

There are a number of variances within how social movements coincide with disasters and its major counterpart of government. The shock doctrine is a way that government utilizes the first hand results of a major cultural shift or an instance of impact on the social public to either upheave regulation from the establishment by way of distraction or by false means of necessity for larger consensus control. A principal of reversal where in the public takes on events of a paradigm shift or the basis of shock doctrine with the technical tactic of "media hijacking". Occupy Wall Street was a movement in 2011 following the economic crash of 2008 where working class citizens peacefully protested in the public hemispheres of Wall Street, flooding the media stream with outrage towards Wall Street elites. This is a principle of how "anger works best when you have the moral high ground". The goals of the movement were slowly gaining momentum, generating fear from government regulators and a large number of corporate interests - despite suffering many structural issues from within, the movement was written off as anarchic and lost traction.