Whilst I read ZeroHedge everyday for the articles, the comments are themselves often a source of delight as I found out again today with the following quote which could almost be expanded into an article itself :
Carving through the bad feeling I finally realized that what is transpiring about the globe is all of the same ilk, from the same well of human emotion….
Whether under freely elected, manipulated or dictatorial regimes, the populace are seeing on-line, real time the same frustrations and anger of their peers world wide. The new Gutenberg press has advanced human societal evolution multifold.
Tired of being the beasts of burden to oligarchs, tired of being squeezed of every last shilling accompanied by actions veiled in platitudes and altruistic promises, lack of jobs and in most cases availability let alone escalating food and materials prices, experiencing dwindling freedoms as the ruling class itself sees no other options than to repress the anger, they identify. Most in some form of empathy, the root unplaceable and obtuse, but there, present. Clearly in residence.
Granted, coming from extremely disparate quarters and conditions, reflective of disparate opportunities and ideals, it is never the less the same chord being struck, world wide;
“I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.”
Strangely, perhaps both Orwell and Marx were right, as in prescient, not else as wrong, correct, or even good. Simply, prescient.
Subsequent to such epiphany, the bad feeling morphs, becoming understandable and that in and of itself, comforting for the perplexity diminishes as the vision clears.
T’will be a long, arduous and socially wrenching journey, to be felt by generations.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
The article to which the comment belongs is also worth a read as it suggests that Bahrain’s negotiations with the Shia dominated opposition is a much greater threat to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia than many realise.
Courtesy of "Knuckles" here.
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