Comment by suraci
4 hours ago
Hunger and poverty (mostly caused by sanctions and economic crises) are dry firewood, and social media are the sparks.
The former is the underlying contradiction, and the latter is the force of organization
Both of these elements are required for a successful color revolution
Force of organization is an interesting phrase, never heard that before. Reminds me of catalyzing crystal seeds, or how at the quark level mass arises out of information/order/entropy in the complexity sense. The more ordered the heavier it is. (Maybe this is fringe/kook/IANAPhysicist).
I guess before social media there would be other sources of order, churches, political organizations, youth groups. Maybe in the absence of that Twitter is all the revolutionaries had left (but my above conjecture is, there were greater sources of organization in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere than that which was legible online. (As an otherwise unaffiliated American I have no way of knowing.)