Out with the Old

Rebellion is in the air, even in China.

Maybe it's the unsettling weather, maybe it's contagion--after all, everyone else is doing it. Even the US has its rebellious group--the Tea Party.

The rebellions all call for democracy, which would be a good thing, but Fio suspects many of those who are calling for it don't have the least inkling what the word means. She thinks what a lot of them want is anarchy.

Consider Somalia.