remarks heard today

From a secretary I chatted with on campus:

“We never realized how fragile the regime was.”

From another secretary, when I asked if her family was all fine:

“We are all fine, and all celebrating.”

It’s really a remarkable change here. People are saying whatever they feel like saying, and protesting whenever and wherever they feel like protesting. It’s a kind of intoxication with the new access to a normal political sphere.