Legacy of the Tahrir square

A quote:
"The [Occupy Wall St.] movement’s true origins, however, go back to the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. That was when the world witnessed how intransigent regimes can be toppled by leaderless democratic crowds, brought together by social media, that stand firm and courageously refuse to go home until their demands for change are met. Our shared epiphany was that America, too, needs its Tahrir Square moment and its own kind of regime change. Perhaps not the hard regime change of Tunisia and Egypt, but certainly a soft one."

The saying is that "people learn from mistakes... but smart people learn from the mistakes of others." Most people however do not learn at all, even from the mistakes of their own.
The "protests", from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall St., unfortunately have shown the truth of this conjecture. One could understand why frustrated (and usually young) people went into the streets and demanded changes - whatever changes, coming from anywhere, and anyhow. But, as the quote above shows, most of these people are likely to miss the main lesson of the protest movements - the protests lacking leadership and clear goals change nothing. They merely allow the protesters to vent off their anger, no more than that.

- Revolution in Tunisia brought to power Islamists. Rather moderate ones, but quite intent on limiting the civil rights of women. You call this social justice?

- Much celebrated revolution in Egypt removed Mubarak, but hasn't changed anything else. The country is run by the same people, the protests continue, the people demand resignation of the head of the ruling army council. Moreover, the only clearly formulated demands turned out to be not for equality, democrayc or economic reforms - but for the abrogating the Egypt's peace treaty with Israel. Is potential war and cessation of economic ties with Egypt's neighbor the kind of social justice that everyone has in mind?

- Revolution in Libya is rarely mentioned as an example of successful protests - no wonder, it was a bloodbath. Yet, so far it was the example of the most organized resistance. It is not clear whether it will bring democracy and justice though.

- Protests in Bahrain were suppressed. Protests in Jordan dissolved after a few meaningless concessions by the King.

- "Tent city" in Israel faded away - its only legacy being the boost that it may (or may not) give in the next elections to the Labor party.

- Protests in Syria look like a massacre. The protests seem to realize that the only way out for them is to get organized - much to the displeasure of the US Secretary of the State.

- "Occupy Wall St.", after several incidents of rape and robberies, was dismantled from the US parks by police.