I am near the Shandao Temple MRT (subway station) in Taipei, Taiwan in the middle of a Democratic revolution. The youth (and seemingly beyond) have been banding together for the last week or so, speaking out in protest to an approaching trade agreement between Taiwan and mainland China. On a micro scale, it's a matter of opening the floodgates wherein "the sharks will eat the little fish." But in a much larger sense, it's about democracy. It's about being a country. It's about knowing that no matter what, you have a voice. The people are here to show the sharks living in their own land that little fish matter and refuse to be eaten. It's about banding together as humans and being one. It's beautiful and it's heartbreaking and my heart is alive and beating right here with them.
In the middle of it,
-LS^2
And now, a look at some of the protester's art and passion, put into a kaleidoscope and shouted into the boom...
Your unreliable narrator.
Ethan, in shades, for levity.
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