I would get a soapbox, and read my ideas on the reform of the financial system. What is striking about these protests is the apparently universal mediocrity and lack of coherent ideas which typify it. Where in the French revolution you had philosophes declaiming their (often idiotic) ideas in every cafe, here you have nothing.
I have called these the Ubu Roi protests, and the squirrel tamer protests (I watched the video–Monty Python’s Lion Tamer skit–and it was actually an ant-eater, but the principle is the same). Now I would like to call it SpongeBob goes to Wall Street. Sponges soak up everything, they have little weight, and the float around easily. Perhaps the “occupy” idea is reaction to an intrinsic sense of rootlessness. Worth considering.