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People keep bringing up the Arab spring as an argument for Twitter being socially beneficial. However, I am not sure the Arab Spring was a net positive. Tunisi
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
People keep bringing up the Arab spring as an argument for Twitter being socially beneficial.
However, I am not sure the Arab Spring was a net positive. Tunisia turned out ok, but Libya is still a disaster. Egypt went from Dictator to Islamist Party to Military Dictatorship. Syria has seen massive death and destruction and Assad is still clinging to power. Yemen is involved in a nasty civil war.
I think many in the West take a too rosy view of the Arab Spring. For the average Middle Easterner in those countries, the Arab Spring has been a disaster.
- 908B64B197 5y agoIt takes courage for a nation to take matters into it's own hands and march toward democracy. And it's not an easy road either.
- nxmnxm99 5y agoThat doesn't mean it was a good thing. Democracy isn't the only "right" way to maximize outcomes for a society, as much as western moralism might want it to be.
- 908B64B197 5y agoAnd yet what are the alternatives?
- sbmthakur 5y agoThose outcomes are often referred to as Arab Winter that followed the Arab Spring.
- foolinaround 5y agoyes, people want change, but sometimes the rate of change is too overwhelming... and once the change is set in motion, no one is able to predict what the next actions would be.