via newyorker.com

The 'money' quote:

But while we are playing this game, let me present my own pet theory. The most striking thing to me about Konczal’s list of popular words is the absence of terms such as “Wall Street,” “bonuses,” “bailouts” and “CEO pay.” None of them feature in the top twenty-five. This absence feeds my suspicion that Occupy Wall Street isn’t primarily an anti-Wall Street phenomenon. It is a generalized anti status-quo protest movement, for which Wall Street serves as the convenient focal point.

If you accept this theory, it makes perfect sense that the protesters don’t have short and snappy set of demands. They aren’t sleeping under tarpaulins to support a financial-transactions tax, a return to Glass-Stegall, or a nationwide write-down in student loans, although some of them would support these proposals, to be sure. They are out there creating a ruckus because they think that things in this country are seriously out of whack, and have been for a number of years, with the politics and policies of both parties slanted scandalously towards the rich and powerful.