Thoughts on Uprising 2020 (This is a bit academic, but bear with me) In a universe of multiplicities, protest has a function, just as stillness and peace do. We live in a world where all things exist and while it may be convenient to dismiss protests (violent or nonviolent) by masses of the populous as simplistic expressions of rage, we cannot mistake their seduction. In a country that has pretty poor emotion management skills, to see such an outpouring of humanity reminds us