Sunday 8 January 2012

Paul Mason: Why It's All Kicking Off

“It really is THE revolution, it’s not a by-product of say Egypt or Facebook. The problem we’ve got is the systems that were constructed before this knowledge revolution took place are all creaky, and I don’t just mean banking, politics is falling apart. I see the revolutions of 2011 as part of humanity trying to just set it right.”
A year ago, shortly after the British student protests and in the middle of the Egyptian revolution, intrepid BBC journalist Paul Mason took a group of activists to the pub to thrash out the reasons behind this sudden upsurge in revolt. His subsequent, slightly hungover, blog post ’20 Reasons Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere’ went viral: “I was asking myself what is it that has flipped this generation over? I sat there with a bunch of activists and had a long discussion; we went to a pub and carried on the discussion,” he says as we sit down to discuss his forthcoming book, which follows on from that initial post to investigate the causes of this new wave of global struggle. “We tried to work it out, what’s causing it? I just published it on the blog, went to a party, came back, switched on the computer and there was something like 83,000 retweets...”
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