ABSTRACT
"The students and young workers who poured into the streets of Cairo and Alexandria in early 2011 have proved that revolution lives even in the age of TINA. In fact, they are a huge blow to TINA, inspiring people everywhere to believe that they can create a new world, against all odds". The author admitted the uprising was a shot heard round the world. And that it was a direct challenge to TINA. For if unarmed youth and workers in some of the most repressive regimes in the world could launch successful revolutions, then surely people can create alternatives in any nation to any existing system. "Nobody imagined that a mass revolution of the 'Facebook generation' would take the Arab world-all the world-by storm. But", the author added skeptically, "it could bring chaos or radical Islamic extremists into power. This would be a disaster".
