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^^^That was my first thought. Then Buddha and Muhammed and well Siddhartha is one of my favourite books. Herman Hesse in general is da bee's knees - a true psychic kungfu master of the written word.
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Posted: September 01 2015 at 10:53
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Not to go off topic, JJLehto, but where does the quote "It's fine, luckily we're all English so no one will ask any questions. Thank you centuries of emotional repression" come from? It's familiar but I can't place it.
Not to go off topic, JJLehto, but where does the quote "It's fine, luckily we're all English so no one will ask any questions. Thank you centuries of emotional repression" come from? It's familiar but I can't place it.
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Posted: September 01 2015 at 08:48
Not to go off topic, JJLehto, but where does the quote "It's fine, luckily we're all English so no one will ask any questions. Thank you centuries of emotional repression" come from? It's familiar but I can't place it.
I understand you can't even come close to getting all of them, even all the major ones, but no mention at all of the American and French revolutions?
How about Arab Spring? I had a great affinity for that period of time. An act of protest by one person triggered a massive explosion of pent up anger and lead to so much abrupt change in an area we all in the rest of the world assumed was stable, to be forever under dictatorial rule. We were actually taught in our universities how "Maybe Islam/the middle east simply is just backwards" and "They just are not compatible with democracy" and all that BS got tossed out very quick, and we were taught how the area was backwards, so I really loved seeing the people standing up to say they are not inherently backwards...its the conditions many were forced to live under. I thought it was a beautiful, albeit savage, time and I think shattered many views held by us in the West, and proved people always have a breaking point.
Cant say I have a "favorite" so just for the sake of intrigue, I'll say the Orange Revolution.
Having Ukrainian heritage I really held hope for that period of time: the rejection of Russian dominance, oligarchy, corruption and embrace of Euro/US/Western pull and want to modernize.
From this list, the only I can say I like is Luxemburg.
Marx was interesting, though I feel he was a product of the time..moderate options that developed over time proved him wrong, which could be said of all Marxists.
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Posted: August 31 2015 at 16:53
My least favorite revolutionary would probably be Lee Harvey Oswald. That is of course assuming he shot the President all by himself. If not, well then he's just a dumb loser.
Favorite Rev? Probably Hendrix.
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