[FRIAM] Santa Fe Plaza Riot

[Tom Johnson]

Jon wrote:
"Yet, places strike me as being
remarkably different."

I think what we are seeing, somewhat, is a global reaction to
Authoritarianism, which has basically the same attributes from the US to
the UK to Hungary, India, the Philippines, China and Brazil.
Tom

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020, 10:55 AM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> Marcus,
>
> Your comment about televisions is part of my point about
> resources and energy. I see the massive institutions and
> structures that are in place to bring me globally syndicated
> programming as being *expensive* and doing *what it can*
> to constrain difference. Yet, places strike me as being
> remarkably different. I don't really see the outrage around
> Floyd as being a reliable sign for cultural differences as the
> outrage strikes me as a kind of media event. Voter turn-out,
> similarly, seems to rely on *nation* and imagined communities
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_community>.
>
> Jon
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