Occupy Wall Street - Biting the Hand That Feeds

Bear with me a minute here; in the classic 1960s TV show The Prisoner, there is an episode in which three kinds of rebellion are described. I chose this show because it is unusual in being influential while only running 17 episodes, and because under the direction of Patrick McGoohan, who also starred, the show explored the place of the individual versus the gently Orwellian world in which he finds himself. In some ways it could be seen as a Libertarian opus. I highly recommend it.
In this episode, the three types of rebellion described are:

• Biting the hand that feeds; the bureaucrat who protests the system while gaining all the advantages of the system.
• The rebellion of the young; the exuberant rebellion of those whose actual reasons for rebellion are unclear, who rebel because that is the popular thing to do.
• The rebellion of the individual; the man or woman who struggles with the state or system for his own reasons and in his own way.

Seen from the outside, it appear to me the OW protesters are both biting the hand that feeds and living the rebellion of the young, protesting of ill-defined reasons and because it carries a status.
I have yet to hear a coherent program from the OW protesters. If you watch five different news reports you will see the same vague envy against the rich, but no clear program, certainly nothing that could be proposed as legislation. Part of this may be because life is pretty mundane for most of us, and protesting and being the darlings of the media is much more interesting.
These children of the social network revolution are protesting the very companies that make it possible. One would assume they are funded by someone; no one eats for free.
Comparisons to the Arab Spring are ridiculous and self-dramatizing. And lest anyone draw that comparison too closely, none of those 'Arab Spring' protests have led to democracy yet. The very comparison to the Prague Spring is an insult.
The OW protesters have an incoherent program that will not be achieved, and that cannot be achieved by rule of law. Vaguely, they would like jobs, and the rich to give up their earnings, and for the rich (define that one please) to pay more than the 40% of taxes the 1% pays. And iphones for all . . .
It is class envy fueled by an awful economy and sustained by the media and the fact that manning the imaginary barricades is more fun than looking for a job, or paying your student loans.
But they are getting their 15 minutes of fame, and a distraction from working and raising families and the seemingly mundane but ultimately much more important work of living. When the first autumn rains hit, the casual protesters will leave, and this will have been a few weeks of self-dramatizing indulgence, 'full of sound an fury, signifying nothing'.