You never know what you can wait from the "day after". After all the huge noise caused by May 1968 in Paris, there was in June an election and who won? The conservative Charles De Gaulle, one of the main goals of the protesters. And he won with a large margin of votes.
So, the conclusion at that time was: all that movement in May was useless. The conservatives won. But nothing could be more wrong than this conclusion. The time gave the victory to May 1968. De Gaulle made a government everything but remarkable and the movement of May 1968 changed the world in a lot of aspects, from politics to economy, from sexual behavior to the education. Time showed that all that noise caused by students and workers had sense and that was necessary to change. And the world changed, adopting many of the things that the demonstrators demanded.
All this situation is remembered now in Brazil. After demonstrations that took by surprise all the countries, things seem to be calm and cool. But if you pay attention in what is happenning you will see that a lot of things changed since then and will continue to change. The sensation is that is all over. But it is not. If you take a closer look to the Brazilian reality today, one month after the eclosion of the manifestations, you will see another country. And this country is better, far better than the other.
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