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Victor Davis Hanson: George Floyd unrest – when the revolution doesn't go as planned
OPINION - By Victor Davis Hanson | Tribune Media Services
Radicals establish police-free area in Seattle, publish list of demands
Citizens occupy police-free 'autonomous zone,' vowing to stay in their makeshift city until the government meets their long list of demands; reaction on 'The Five.'
The ancient Greeks created new words like "paradox" and "irony" to describe the wide gap between what people profess and assume, and what they actually do and suffer.
Remember the blind prophet Teiresias of ancient drama. In the carnage of Athenian tragedy he alone usually ends up foreseeing danger better than did those with keen eyesight.
After a catastrophic plague and endless war, ancient democratic Athens was stripped of its majestic pretensions. Soon it was conducting mass executions – on majority votes of the people.
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Our recent protests started out idealistically by calling attention to the racism that had led to the death of George Floyd while in police custody. But that tragic killing sadly became overshadowed by protests and violence where cruel irony abounded.
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Mayors who did not protect supermarkets and discount warehouse stores from burning and looting now demand that such terrified chains do not abandon their inner cities.
As these natural and mandate catastrophes continue, we see raw human nature stripped of its pretenses. The result is tragically ironic and often not a pretty sight.
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