Getting way off topic now even from Twitter ;)
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 15:08 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote:
>
> Been there twice.
As a tourist, or were you visiting and staying with family and/or
friends? Quite different experiences depending.
How were the roads? How did you travel, rent a car, taxi, bus? Where
there any animals on the road? Were all the roads paved? Did you visit
rural and non-tourist areas with nothing to see, but the avg every day
life of Egyptians?
The tourist spots are nice, but that is not a reflection of the country
as a whole. Not saying Egypt is a horrible place, but its still pretty
far from being considered a modern country by many different standards.
> Loved it, and can't wait to see what it's like in 5 years.
>
> They overthrew their government for the same reasons we did here in
> America 250 years ago - taxation without representation.
Similar reasons but not the same at all. Colonists were not suffering or
poor as most of Egypt's society is still. Not to mention we were a
colony, being taxed by a remote entity with no representation. Not our
own local government driving and living around us in luxury as the
average citizen struggles to be above poverty level. Colonists were not
considered citizens of England. Thus they are quite different.
There are some similarities but many more differences. England was not
necessarily oppressing the colonists. Taxing with representation is
quite different from oppression. Which more relates to our civil rights
issues/movements and other things. The real oppression people in the US
faced, never came from England but within, which is worse.
> It never works and will always fail eventually. If society has
> evolved from riding a horse through town screaming "the British are
> coming" into tweets from a cell phone, then so be it. The message is
> still the same.
First off that story is a popular poem/myth from a famous author, Henry
Longfellow[1]. Not to be mistaken with factual history. Henry used the
story and Paul's catchy name for pop culture purposes, maybe for profit,
that is all. Paul was not the only one, and while he was alive wasn't
known for such deeds[2][3].
But where does that leave say Libya? Where are all the Tweets from
there? Is it technology thats helping to overthrow the Libyan
government?
A one off case and scenario is not a de facto for them all. How many
countries have had their governments overthrown? Just the US and Egypt?
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere%27s_Ride_%28poem%29
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dawes
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