Speaking upon the Demands of the People in Judith Butlers...

In Judith Butlers paper â€Å"so what are the demands?† she writes about the lack of foresight and goals set by the occupy movement. For this reason she provides her own set of demands. She divides her paper into two sections that take on two points made by the skeptics points for which she analyzes. She first brings up the skeptics position which states that: demands should take the form of a list and secondly that demands should be capable of being satisfied. Between these two statements she clears up why the movement exists, what its purpose is and the pitfalls of these two points. The paper begins to dissect the problems with the first statement being that of lists. Butler states that they merely sum up what the demands are about but over-simplify/over-look the finer details. These lists also do not explain how these demands relate to each other. Lists fall short because no one item on the list can explain what gathers them all together. A position that Butler holds is tha t it is the very historical character of the economic system itself that is the root cause of inequality. Butler points out that the key to understanding this economic framework is to understand why differentials in wealth are increasing more so than ever and by fewer people. Furthermore, small adjustments by lists cannot fix the problems with the economy, they cannot address the inequality of wealth because it is reproducing in ever more acute ways and lists would just get larger rather than ever seeking to