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Apart from these amazing photos, I had been meaning to post something on these riots but didn't know where to start. I feel shocked but also strong from the reaction of the people to their government.
It makes me wonder about Portugal. We have been going through a very bad period too, in governmental terms, and there have been numerous protest marches for a couple of years now, for all kinds of reasons. It seems very close to home, what is happening in Greece.
Conflict can be devastating, but to see it happen so close, in Greece, makes me think that the Portuguese people could have it in them one day to fight back against the daily and enormous injustices, the corrupt and greedy politicians. All it takes is one trigger event...
It is scary but makes me hopeful in a weird way. Sometimes, the people need to make their voice be heard, and sometimes, it has to be through force. I hope the Greeks make it through this hardship and for the most part, come out of it the better for it.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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