RE: End the BS cold war slur by the right. OP ED
April 25, 2015 at 12:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 12:11 pm by Brian37.)
(April 25, 2015 at 11:33 am)Dystopia Wrote: In France it wasn't only against the rich but against the nobility and legal privileges because of social class (Clergy, nobility, royalty, absolutism, etc.). We should be careful of what we do or else something like 1917 Russia happens.
Billionaire Nick Hanouer said as much and I agree. But lets not get stuck on going from open systems to closed systems. Simple evolution is what is going on. You prevent too much of a population from having what they need, you might get away with it for a while, but over extend yourself it will break eventually and that society will go after the top.
This behavior is also in other primates. An alpha male chimp, can dominate the females but eventually he gets old and the younger ones eventually compete to get that power. Why humans think they are different is stupid.
It isn't that you are justifying a revolution, it is just a simple recognition that you cant expect not to have a rise up if far too many people cant survive. Again I still favor open systems and pluralism because they reflect more of our evolutionary diversity, but even western societies are still run by power and our species still has those in it who can ignorantly or willfully corrupt and game that system as well. You don't simply knock a power out and replace it because in doing that you create a vacuum which while unified at first to topple the power will far too often fracture, once the power is toppled, the factions will compete to fill that gap. And it is not a given your faction will end up on top to fill that gap.
