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Most of which require communication which is being heavily surveilled. Afaik, uprisings, even mass uprisings are directed by few well-connected individuals. If

• anigbrowl 9y ago
  To some extent they are, but uprisings are often misrepresented as coups in retrospect. I have some radically different notions, but they're somewhat inchoate and trying to explain them in a long meandering comment would probably be a waste of my time and that of other readers - I feel like I'm a few years away from being able to generalize it, and realistically that's probably an underestimate. As a very quick thumbnail, I'm trying to blend Integrated Information Theory, Selectorate Theory, the eusocial dynamics of colonial animals (including ourselves, per Wilson), and some probably-wrong ideas about meiosis (cell division) to come up with a biologically-rooted model of the collective action problem. Not being a professional scholar, there's little or no chance I'll ever weld these into a general theory of human social behavior, nor do I want to; I hope to intuit a good-enough grasp to deploy it within polities and rely on its fundamental harmony with nature as the least destructive method of manufacturing large-scale social change. It's probably a doomed endeavor but I'd rather fail at a hard problem :)