Today is 4 June 2006, 17 years post the Tiananmen Square protests.
The unknown rebel lives on in our collective mind, in the collective memory assembling at Youtube there’s a clip courtesy of a bit of basic science:
From Wikipedia:
Although the initial protests were made by students and intellectuals who believed that the Deng Xiaoping reforms had not gone far enough and China needed to reform its political systems, they soon attracted the support of urban workers who believed that the reforms had gone too far. This occurred because the leaders of the protests focused on the issue of corruption, which united both groups, and because the students were able to invoke Chinese archetypes of the selfless intellectual who spoke truth to power.
Science and democracy. Mutually reinforcing. Mutually dependent. Don’t forget it. Peaceful sustainable development relies upon it. My inner rebel is telling me today we need more science, here’s to the the unknown rebel and those massacred for reminding me.
