“In ordinary times, tomorrow is like today, and the future is predictable—not just in Egypt but everywhere. The essence of revolutionary moments is not any particular set of demands or changes, but their very unknowability. And that sense that the future is unwritten—the “right to the unknown”—is a rare and thrilling and sometimes terrifying kind of human freedom.”

— Peter Frase

  12:55 pm  ❦   11 February 2011   ❦  1 note