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> People will eventually get radicalized, wont they? Young people get radicalized. Then they get married, have kids, get a career, get debts, etc. Radicalnes
by njharman 17y ago
> People will eventually get radicalized, wont they?
Young people get radicalized. Then they get married, have kids, get a career, get debts, etc. Radicalness over. People eventually sell-out, cop-out, or join up. They rarely stay radicalized.
That is SOP for humanity at least last 80 years or so that I know about.
- olefoo 17y agoThen there are the times when otherwise solidly middle class people become radicalised by financial hardship and capricious and unfair actions of government and financial institutions. When the stable productive core of society is getting dislocated from it's niche and starts to see it's relatively moderate level of privilege erode; that is when you get transformational violence across broad sectors of society. If you want to argue historical examples, both the french revolution and the rise of fascism in Europe followed this pattern.