While Middle East protestors revolt for their country’s freedom from tyrannical governments, US workers revolt to protect their union protectors from tyrannical government union-busters.
How do these feel similar, and in what ways do they seem profoundly different?
Freedom and protection. Two deep human longings with different levels of implications. In both, there is an existential urge to be free from the abuses of patriarchies. Both mark liberation from the role of child and adolescence. May both mark the realization of a new era of civic adulthood.
