Status Updates From El disturbio eterno

‘I have no idea.’ What he does know is this: A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN LISARH HAVE BEEN FALSELY IMPLICATED…THE PEOPLE IN THE ADMINISTRATION SAID THEY ARE UNDER POLITICAL PRESSURE TO TAKE ONE-SIDED ACTION…MUSLIMS WORK FOR THEM SO THEY WILL LISTEN TO MUSLIMS.

There is little doubt in our minds that much of what we have just heard is bullshit, and what journalist does not like the smell of bullshit if it can be shown to be just that?

The man with the most authority amongst them, the five-time chief, has outlined an alternative version of events that I’ll wager they’ve heard before. Because retellings have their uses. They serve as a reminder that individual recollections must give way to what can be asserted as the collective truth.

...if you generate a crowd of aggrieved people...in the tens of thousands, you better have something to say. If the best you can do is appeal to its higher sentiments, you won’t be standing on the dais for long. Does a crowd develop its own consciousness as it begins to sense its leadership’s inability to articulate what should be done? Who speaks for the crowd then, or does the crowd start to speak for itself?