The revolution that doesn't look like a revolution by Joseph Wang on bitquant
9/29: It's like living in an alternative reality. You walk down the street, and things are just different enough that you feel a little freaked out.
Yes this is a revolution
You know that cliche in which the news camera focus on the explosion and then everything is normal. Well things *AREN'T* like that. One thing that tells you things aren't normal is that you are talking about road closures, bus line changes, and general traffic disruption. Hong Kong usually is a city in which the buses run like clockwork.
Also, you have this very funny mix of "Chinese face" and "British stiff upper lip and understatement." The 10/1 fireworks were cancelled because of "traffic issues". Some of the Causeway Bay entrances were closed because of "maintainence problems" in the entrance (i.e. the students had barricaded the entrance). When I was at Admiralty on the first day of the demonstrations, an MTR person told me that not to use exit A, for "safety reasons."
Read other answers by Joseph Wang on Quora:
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What do Umbrella protester, Hong Konger think about UK Occupy London protest in term of police brutality govt attitude and media coverage ?
- Why is the Hong Kong government so afraid of Occupy Central?
- What are the Hong Kong Occupy Central movement's demands?
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