So, let me get this straight. Some douchebag "blowing out" his hair makes it on the news, yet we don't hear a word about coltan mining in the Congo or the millions of lives that have been lost just so that this illiterate buffoon can have his iPhone? Why are people so self-obsessed?
He has a valid point, and his anger is certainly justified; however, channeling that anger into a movement which has all the makings of Germany c. 1938 is a little scary. This is why the revolution must be conscious, logical and well-planned, not reactionary. Reactionary movements lead to Hitlers...
I just think it's funny how everyone makes such a big deal about the Romanovs dying by gunshot (ie. fairly quickly) and the lives of the children being so tragically cut short, yet no one talks about the millions of children of peasants that died of malnutrition, starvation and disease (ie. long,...
Actually, it's the common problem of the revolutionary. What to do with the leader (real or symbolic) of the old regime? If you kill them, you run the risk of turning them into martyrs but if you let them live, you run the risk of turning them into a rallying point of all supporters of the old re...
So, let me get this straight. Some douchebag "blowing out" his hair makes it on the news, yet we don't hear a word about coltan mining in the Congo or the millions of lives that have been lost just so that this illiterate buffoon can have his iPhone? Why are people so self-obsessed?