Posted by sigismund on October 16, 2011, at 6:16:29
In reply to Re: Another day on Wall Street, posted by sigismund on October 10, 2011, at 5:03:17
There are big manifastasiones (as I think they call them) all over Spain. Los indignados filled up the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, and there was a big one here in Seville. I can see that because this started in the Anglosphere resistance will be hardest there. I think, but I may be wrong, that the Occupy Wall St movement had Spanish origins? I wouldn't say that it feels prerevolutionary here, but the feeling is palpable, even up to amusing gafitti such as 'F*ck Wikipedia'. I doubt that Spain has an equivalent of Michelle Bachman. I would like to know that.
It's always good to go to the local services anywhere (except at home), and I find them more moving for not understanding them completely. Spanish churches have so much gold and silver you cannot help wondering where it came from. Did any Amerindians die for it? They are amazing places nonetheless. No young people though.
I wonder if Christianity's martyrology is connected to its bloody history? Like Islam's perhaps? But Judaism? Of course after the Holocaust, Israel.
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