Comments on: Humanity http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/humanity/ Or, "If you stole my maize, I pull your teeth." Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:37:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: zunguzungu http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/humanity/#comment-1373 zunguzungu Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:03:16 +0000 http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/?p=1136#comment-1373 The amount of information out there is really incredible, actually, though it's difficult to separate the trivia ("x number of protesters portesting at y street in z city") from the truly historic stuff that's happening. I think I'm most excited at the idea that this might represent a transformation of the Iraian revolution, which was -- as has been <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/WDBc/~3/CKnbXK6ePDQ/ali-gharib-writesthe-regime-is-not-going-to-collapse-and-thats-not-the-goal-of-any-of-those-marching-tehrans-streetsthis-i.html" rel="nofollow">pointed out</a> -- about overthrowing the shah first and only about installing theocracy second (or, rather, it came to be controlled by that sizeable element that *was* only about theocracy). The heterogeneity of the original anti-shah movement, though, seems better represented by the kind of incoherant populism we're seeing in the streets, and whatever Mousavi's intentions are or have been (<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/WDBc/~3/z_oM74QjURw/tehran-is-burning-but-who-is-fuelling-the-fires----based-on-opinion-polls-conducted-a-few-weeks-before-the-election-by-terr.html" rel="nofollow">this guy's</a> somewhat pessimistic, for example) there is real potential for something really good to happen here. The amount of information out there is really incredible, actually, though it’s difficult to separate the trivia (“x number of protesters portesting at y street in z city”) from the truly historic stuff that’s happening. I think I’m most excited at the idea that this might represent a transformation of the Iraian revolution, which was — as has been pointed out — about overthrowing the shah first and only about installing theocracy second (or, rather, it came to be controlled by that sizeable element that *was* only about theocracy). The heterogeneity of the original anti-shah movement, though, seems better represented by the kind of incoherant populism we’re seeing in the streets, and whatever Mousavi’s intentions are or have been (this guy’s somewhat pessimistic, for example) there is real potential for something really good to happen here.

]]> By: phoenixcomplex http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/humanity/#comment-1371 phoenixcomplex Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:58:30 +0000 http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/?p=1136#comment-1371 I trust you've been following <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>? Mr. Pitney got some love from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC yesterday ("thank you! get some sleep!"), and is tireless. It is all completely amazing. I trust you’ve been following this? Mr. Pitney got some love from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC yesterday (“thank you! get some sleep!”), and is tireless.

It is all completely amazing.

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