Occupy camps across the country have been cleared out, and even though demonstrations are still drawing impressive numbers, it seems the protesters' message may be getting a little lost.

That's all well and good, but the 1% still has a long way to go.

A least, that's what author Michael Lewis says in his latest Bloomberg column. He is proposing a new approach to handling Occupy Wall Street. Basically, his piece is a simple strategy meeting memo (nothing too complicated from a man who excels at simplifying the most complex of financial ideas).

He writes:

"To: The Upper Ones From: Strategy Committee Re: The Counterrevolution

As usual, we have much to celebrate... The rabble has been driven from the public parks. Our adversaries, now defined by the freaks and criminals among them, have demonstrated only that they have no idea what they are doing. They have failed to identify a single achievable goal."

Luckily, he continues, the 99% didn't continue with their plans to have a run on banks. But that doesn't mean all is said and done — many 1%ers don't even know who they are (disgusting):

"Disturbingly, his recent polling data reveal that many of us don’t even know who we are: Fully half of all Upper Ones believe themselves to belong to the Lower 99. That any human being can earn more than 344 grand a year without having the sense to identify which side in a class war he is on suggests that we should limit membership to actual rich people. But we wish to address this issue in a later memo. For now we remain focused on the problem at hand: How to keep their hands off our money."

Lewis identifies two major threats to the 1%.

"The first is the shifting relationship between ambitious young people and money...Our Wall Street friends, wounded and weakened, can no longer pick up the tab for sucking the idealism out of America’s youth. But if not them, who? We on the committee are resigned to all elite universities becoming breeding grounds for insurrection, with the possible exception of Princeton."



"The second threat is in the unstable mental pictures used by Lower 99ers to understand their economic lives. (We have found that they think in pictures.) They appear to have switched this out of their minds for a new picture, of a life raft with shrinking provisions. A dollar in our pockets they now view as a dollar from theirs. Fearing for their lives, the Lower 99 will surely become ever more desperate and troublesome."

Awful. This is a ticking time bomb — a lack of new 1% blood combining with an increasingly conscious 99%? That can't happen. (Think about it: "They may even be frightened into momentary submission. (We’re long pepper spray." But that's just a band-aid.)

So, what's the real solution?

"Hence our committee’s conclusion: We must be able to quit American society altogether, and they must know it. For too long we have simply accepted the idea that we and they are all in something together, subject to the same laws and rituals and cares and concerns. This state of social relations between rich and poor isn’t merely unnatural and unsustainable, but, in its way, shameful. (Who among us could hold his head high in the presence of Louis XIV or those Russian czars or, for that matter, Croesus?) "

For a shining example of how this is done correctly, we turn to Greece (obviously):

"The modern Greeks offer the example in the world today that is, the committee has determined, best in class. Ordinary Greeks seldom harass their rich, for the simple reason that they have no idea where to find them. To a member of the Greek Lower 99 a Greek Upper One is as good as invisible.

He pays no taxes, lives no place and bears no relationship to his fellow citizens. As the public expects nothing of him, he always meets, and sometimes even exceeds, their expectations...

That is the sort of relationship with the Lower 99 we must cultivate if we are to survive."

There are some Americans that already have this down pat and, according to Lewis, there's one in particular who deserves an award for his hard work — Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos.

His private rocket ship may have exploded before it reached outer space. But before it did, it sent back to Earth the message we hope to convey:

We’re outta here!