Friday 4 February 2011

Scattered thoughts

Perhaps there is nothing more to be said about what is happening in Egypt and what just happened in Tunisia before that, apart from us watching again the amazing movie Persepolis. It's all been said there.

But perhaps things are not exactly the same: fascism, oligarchy and suppression takes many forms and Egypt and Tunisia were not extremely religious countries, the way Satrapi's Iran is in Persepolis.

I am following the news, listening to Chomsky's comments, Obama's empty words and can't help thinking that it all started with a boy who set himself on fire.

Is that what it takes?

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