I appreciated the dispassionate detachment of the comment. Like others, I&#x27;m a little suspicious of your &quot;feminism annexed academia&quot; bit (though not in the same kneejerky way). But what I really wonder is, could you expand on &quot;why Occupy failed?&quot; I&#x27;ve never really viewed it through that lens.<p>Here, I&#x27;ll give it a go. Certainly the unifying mythos was there - the 1%&#x2F;the 99% - and by the way this isn&#x27;t preposterous. But since you say &quot;necessarily preposterous,&quot; would you say it was in fact, not preposterous enough? Too easily subjected to rational verification&#x2F;quantification?<p>Also there were no resources of any import seized, for redistributing. Promises of future rewards seem like they were in place however.<p>The &quot;prisoner&#x27;s dilemma&quot; portion, was effectively impossible without becoming an armed mob. They wanted to convert fence-sitters through sympathy, but I guess we&#x27;re saying, fear is what works?  Therefore instead of sympathy for the guys &amp; gals getting pepper-sprayed, Joe Middleclass fears being pepper-sprayed himself, and the STATE is the one triggering the loss aversion.  Interesting.