threeplusfire | this is where we are

You should watch this entire video. It's making the rounds on the wired tonight. It shows a peaceful protest of university students, sitting on a goddamned quad at UC Davis. (Why do you need riot police when a bunch of students are sitting in a quad? Really?) A police officer stands directly in front of them and douses them with pepper spray. Just right in the face, almost like he's showing off for the observers. Several are cuffed and dragged away. The crowd of students drives the huddle of police back, shouting "Shame on You" and later "We are giving you a moment of peace, we will not follow you, you can go."

I've been thinking a lot lately about the first time I read Transmetropolitan and that moment where the eye of the world stops injustices. Every other hand is holding a cell phone or a tablet aloft, taking pictures and recording video. My future is strangely not dissimilar from the one I read about in novels and comics. But will it be enough now? Are there enough people left to care, to drive change forcefully against the walls of power and money?

I honestly have no idea. But I suppose we have to try or our future will probably be darker.