Rattle wrote:
Cryptome has posted an eyeballing series on its .cn domain with a large number of pictures of the events during and the leaders of the student movement, along with a large collection of new documents.
The student movement and the Tiananmen Square Massacre are historical events that should be understood better by most people. The image of the student standing in front of the column of tanks may be burnt into the memory of the world, but few realize the overall scale of that event. It was China's Woodstock, only more so. The lasting effects did change China forever.
I've long considered the Goddess of Democracy to be a powerful and inspiring symbol. I have trouble thinking of a better example of another culture picking up a more important meme and running with it. Since awareness of this, every time I see the Statue of Liberty, I'm drawn to thoughts in stronger way than before of the global struggle for liberty, freedom, and every peoples natural right to control their own lives. So goes the mutually supporting nature of memes.
I hear that if you go to Red Square... nobody has a fucking clue that any such massacre ever occurred there. Media was blacked out. Nothing to see here. All the tourists are teary and most locals don't get it.
