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Revolutions happen when the gap between public pretension and private reality becomes too large. The same could be said of stock market crashes.
by grey-area 7y ago
Revolutions happen when the gap between public pretension and private reality becomes too large.
The same could be said of stock market crashes.
- watwut 7y agoNot really. They happen when whoever holds power gets weak and there is discontent simultaneously. As long as you are strong, the gap can be arbitrary large.
- grey-area 7y agoMany dictators have been deposed not because they were weak, but because their subjects grew tired of lies and life under their rule. Gadaffi, Sisi, Ceaușescu, Romanovs were not weak by any objective measure, they were happy to suppress dissent and kill their subjects and still had a functioning security apparatus when deposed, ordinary citizens just refused to cooperate. If almost the entire civilian population refuses to cooperate, regimes cannot function.