Protests as stand alone complex?
This is kind of cool. I just saw this article http://bigstory.ap.org/article/erdogan-turkey-brazil-hit-same-conspira cy
And here's a quote:
During an address to tens of thousands of his backers in the Black Sea coastal city of Samsun, the latest stop in a series of rallies he has called to shore up his political support, Erdogan declared that Brazil was the target of the same conspirators he claims are trying to destabilize Turkey.
"The same game is now being played over Brazil," Erdogan said. "The symbols are the same, the posters are the same, Twitter, Facebook are the same, the international media is the same. They (the protests) are being led from the same center.
"They are doing their best to achieve in Brazil what they could not achieve in Turkey. It's the same game, the same trap, the same aim."
It sounded so familiar, having watched GITS, but in a kind of much less exact way of course. Maybe there's an argument to be made that the increasing parallelization of information and protest techniques and calls to arms has sort of led to people from different places and different circumstances doing things that can look very similar? Maybe the question of individuality will come up one day?
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