Re: Egypt's Euphoria

they are swelling breasts too!

regards,
-Lance

On Feb 12, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Johne Cook wrote:

> 'millions of happy breasts?'
>
> Johne Cook
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> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>  
> wrote:
> http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/02/day_joy
> Egypt's euphoria
>
>
>
> Feb 11th 2011, 19:42 by W.W. | IOWA CITY
> <Egypt325.jpg>JUBILATION is catching. It is impossible, for me at  
> least, to watch the crowds in Egypt, overjoyed at Hosni Mubarak's  
> hotly-desired resignation, with dry eyes and an unclenched throat.  
> The best explanation I have heard today for the mass euphoria  
> rippling through Egypt came earlier this morning when one Al Jazeera  
> reporter, choking back sobs, described the rise of Egypt's people  
> and the fall of Egypt's dictator as "everything I've ever hoped  
> for". Everything! Another correspondent, reporting from Alexandria,  
> described Egypt's collective elation as the release of 30 years of  
> bottled-up emotion. He said he had seen birth, that he had seen  
> marriage, but he had never seen happiness like this, and it is  
> everywhere. This is sublimely powerful stuff. It may be the most  
> powerful stuff.
>
> I admit that I am more than a little tempted to rain on the parade  
> and note that Mr Mubarak's departure guarantees nothing and that it  
> is not unreasonable to fear a turn for the worse. There's a tiny,  
> stability-loving Burke on my shoulder, and I'm afraid he's no devil.  
> All the same, for now I'm not listening. Well, I did listen a  
> little, but I've heard enough. It is partly due to my Burkean  
> worries that I feel the pessimist in me should just stuff it for  
> now. Whether or not Egypt flowers into a model democracy, whether or  
> not Egyptians tomorrow live more freely than Egyptians today, today  
> they threw off a tyrant. The surge of overwhelming bliss that has  
> overtaken Egyptians is the rare beautitude of democratic will. The  
> hot blush of liberation, a dazzled sense of infinite possibility  
> swelling millions of happy breasts is a precious thing of terrible,  
> unfathomable beauty, and it won't come to these people again.  
> Whatever the future may hold, this is the happiest many people will  
> ever feel. This is the best day of some peoples' lives. The tiny  
> Dionysian anarchist on my other shoulder is no angel, but I cannot  
> deny that there is something holy in this feeling, that it is one of  
> few human experiences that justifies life—that satisfies, however  
> briefly, our desperate craving for more intensity, for more meaning,  
> for more life from life. Whatever the future holds, there will be  
> disappointment, at best. But there is always disappointment. Today,  
> there is joy.
>
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