Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution

[Doc Sportello]

Doesn't bother me, it might if he were spamming all the livelong day but he
isn't. If there is an island and I could vote I vote he stays. In fact I'd
like to know more about him, and the rest of you for that matter, talkin'
'bout revolutions and all that. Besides, Pynchon loves borderlines.
On Jun 30, 2014 7:10 PM, "Mark Thibodeau" <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do we really all collectively have to suffer this idiot's idiocy?
>
> YOPJ
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Michael Alan <michaelalancc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > One thing I cant consume here, is long texts. But especially links. I
> have
> > never in my life clicked a link.  Okay, Juan Cole.  Does she have great
> > tits?
> >
> > Ley me ask a question.  Does anyone here know abput chlorropphill?
> >
> >
> > On Monday, June 30, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Remember the "Arab Spring?"  Now it's just another failed revolution,
> >> right?  Well, Juan Cole says we should take the long view.
> >>
> >> http://www.juancole.com/2014/06/youth-movements-wrought.html
> >>
> >> Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by the massive crowds
> of
> >> youths mobilizing in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand an end to Egypt’s
> >> dreary police state.  We stared in horror as, at one point, the Interior
> >> Ministry mobilized camel drivers to attack the demonstrators.  We
> watched
> >> transfixed as the protests spread from one part of Egypt to another and
> then
> >> from country to country across the region.  Before it was over, four
> >> presidents-for-life would be toppled and others besieged in their
> palaces.
> >>
> >> Some 42 months later, in most of the Middle East and North Africa, the
> >> bright hopes for more personal liberties and an end to political and
> >> economic stagnation championed by those young people have been dashed.
> >> Instead, a number of Arab countries have seen counter-revolutions, while
> >> others are engulfed in internecine conflicts and civil wars, creating
> Mad
> >> Max-like scenes of post-apocalyptic horror.  But keep one thing in
> mind: the
> >> rebellions of the past three years were led by Arab millennials,
> >> twentysomethings who have decades left to come into their own.  Don’t
> count
> >> them out yet.  They have only begun the work of transforming the region.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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