On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Prashant Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> is he being too simplistic ? was there more to the revolution than just > Food Price ? Would like to know your thoughts . you can see the whole debat > online at http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/17/transcript-schmidt-thiel/ > Really, to give a simplistic response, three words: Motive Means Opportunity Food price is a motive. The internet tools were a means. The desperation produced was made into an opportunity by those who wanted to wedge activism out of a passive public for a very long time. As I said, simplistic. But it's not too much of a stretch to think of a revolution as a crime -- certainly the status quo looks at it that way. And it would be criminal to look at such things with any less complexity, ad reductio, so to speak. ;) But really, people who want to say, "Not this, only that" regarding historic, human, social events have almost always checked their brains at the door -- or worse, have assumed that the audience have checked theirs, and so an agenda can be pushed. Danger, either way. yrs, > -- > Shava Nerad [email protected]
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