[brityank]

Interesting thesis, not without relevance to our situation today.

Civilized people go about their lives on the dual assumption of institutional permanency and a continuity of custom. The assumption that plans made today will see their fruition tomorrow belongs to the background of organized existence and contributes to motivating our purposive behavior. The same assumption can lapse into complacency, however, so that, even as signs of trouble emerge on the horizon, a certain denial disarms people from responding to looming disruption with sufficient swiftness and clarity. People take civilization for granted; they rarely contemplate that it might come tumbling down about their ears. Insofar as the historical record has something important to teach ordinary people who are not specialists in the subject, it might well be the lesson that all known societies before the modern society have come to an end. Some of them have come to an end abruptly and violently.

In our complacency we have allowed the vandals and charlatans free access to our halls of power, and as the 9-12 March showed folks are waking from that complacent somnambulism. Meanwhile the powers-that-be prepare to acquire more Bread & Circuses, and ignore the coming conflagrations. There was a reason that traitors heads were stuck on pikes at the entries to the cities - we should encourage that again.

[Tribune7]

Interesting article, thanks

[Noumenon]

Meanwhile the powers-that-be prepare to acquire more Bread & Circuses, and ignore the coming conflagrations.

I don't believe that they're ignoring it. In fact, I think that they're not only counting on it, but taht they're helping it along. They mean to rule, even if only from atop a stinking heap of rubble and corpses.

In the and, it doesn't matter if they're wrong or that their 'victory' if you could call it that is a Phyrric one. As a result, most of us will die and the living will envy the dead.