This is something I've been aware of for quite some time. Recently, however, it occurred to me the great masses always have and have had the ultimate power to determine a population's destiny--if, that is, they're willing to absorb/suffer the temporary discomfort, pain and mortality occasioned when taking back their shit (read: lives) fr…
This is something I've been aware of for quite some time. Recently, however, it occurred to me the great masses always have and have had the ultimate power to determine a population's destiny--if, that is, they're willing to absorb/suffer the temporary discomfort, pain and mortality occasioned when taking back their shit (read: lives) from those who've blithely stolen from them for so long.
Not saying it's gonna happen anytime next week, but I imagine the courts of Charles I, Louis XVI, the Shah of Iran, and the Empress of China were not at all prepared when their hereditary privileges and so-called "rights" to govern any way they wanted all at once went up in flames either. Frankly, that's what I believe is at the heart of the militia movements not as yet co-opted by the fascist state; they're sick and tired of living like serfs. Abhorrent as I find their politics and actions, I kinda get it, and I suspect more and more ordinary, law-abiding folks are getting it, too.
But that's a digression. My question remains: what's the scofflaw class going to do to subdue an un-subservient populace, besides beginning to shoot everything that moves, I mean? And trust me, they can't build walls high enough or hire enough guns to defend themselves from a people they've not only cultivated to despise any and all authority, but have made damned sure are armed to the teeth as well. How do they game out their options when 90% of the world really is out to get them, and has become so inured to violence, it no longer has the capacity to care if it has to die to see that it gets done?
Elon Musk's plan to evacuate rich guys to the Moon or Mars doesn't count, BTW.
This is something I've been aware of for quite some time. Recently, however, it occurred to me the great masses always have and have had the ultimate power to determine a population's destiny--if, that is, they're willing to absorb/suffer the temporary discomfort, pain and mortality occasioned when taking back their shit (read: lives) from those who've blithely stolen from them for so long.
Not saying it's gonna happen anytime next week, but I imagine the courts of Charles I, Louis XVI, the Shah of Iran, and the Empress of China were not at all prepared when their hereditary privileges and so-called "rights" to govern any way they wanted all at once went up in flames either. Frankly, that's what I believe is at the heart of the militia movements not as yet co-opted by the fascist state; they're sick and tired of living like serfs. Abhorrent as I find their politics and actions, I kinda get it, and I suspect more and more ordinary, law-abiding folks are getting it, too.
But that's a digression. My question remains: what's the scofflaw class going to do to subdue an un-subservient populace, besides beginning to shoot everything that moves, I mean? And trust me, they can't build walls high enough or hire enough guns to defend themselves from a people they've not only cultivated to despise any and all authority, but have made damned sure are armed to the teeth as well. How do they game out their options when 90% of the world really is out to get them, and has become so inured to violence, it no longer has the capacity to care if it has to die to see that it gets done?
Elon Musk's plan to evacuate rich guys to the Moon or Mars doesn't count, BTW.