by Demon of Undoing » Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:25 am
Waitaminute , let's get the meme straight here , we are running into confusion. Will the people rise up in righteous anger or not ?
Amos
When I say poor here and contrast it with soft , I am talking bread- riot poor , streets of Cairo poor. We are both soft compared to them. They lash out for poor reasons because they have nothing to lose. The danger with the soft is that they will lash out in anger when they lose much less. Workplace shootings as a national theme comes to mind. Hint: it's about status ,self image and the inability to cope with the middle class being phased out I would dearly love to be wrong about that and have been gladly surprised that things haven't been more violent. But we have a long , long way to go.
Tinker
The danger in the US is not an organized uprising so much as spree violence on a large scale , multiplied. We have spoken on this at length. No , people will not likely rise up in righteous anger. But they might bring their AR and go out in a blaze of glory. Egos are too fragile , pressures have been too high for too long , and none of the coping mechanisms work right. But any out of the box revolution eats serious gunfire and you know it. Could something form in an eat led environment ? Bet your ass , and that is also a core thesis. Tge American people are not politically violent on a large scale and are not one step from it. Yet. But again , under the right circumstances and with enough pushing , you could have the worst civil war/ anarchy ever seen in a modern nation.
When we have been unduly deprived of life and liberty , says the classic thinking , then violence becomes acceptable. I submit to you that both indeed have been much diminished. I am not killing people over that. If I felt such was justified , it would have already happened. Anybody else that doesnt feel that way better get cracking. Time's a- wasting.
Don't know what it is, but I'm agin'it.