Following on from his brilliant rebuttal to Frank Miller’s juvenile rant on Occupy, Moore lends his name to the Occupy movement.
“My actual feelings about the ’60s are that, yes, of course we had limitations…We talked a lot of shit, and we didn’t have the muscle to back it up. For the most part, we had good intentions. However, we were not able to implement those intentions. And when the state started to take us seriously and initiated countermeasures, the majority of us folded like bitches. Not all of us, but a good number. We weren’t up for the struggle that had sounded so great in our manifestos.”
The bearded one takes to the streets! It’s a beautiful circle when you think about it. V for Vendetta in the 80s inspires anti-authoritarian icons and symbols in the 2010s, only for the creator to join the fray.