“Politics was the new popular entertainment, in a way that it had not been since the war and as it would not be for a long time to come; he estimated the interval at twenty-two years: 1945; 1967; 1989 ….” -Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven 1992 (p82, English trans 1997)

I posted this last December 10th on my Curation.ca blog/project and have been surprised to see it actually come true. Mulisch died in October of last year, so hasn’t lived to see it, but since January we have seen popular protests all over the world – from the Arab Spring, including the Libyan Civil War, to the Occupy movements.