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Unrest starts when people had and lost. The people who were able to afford a BMW last year find themselves homeless this year. True Believer has lots of insig
by base698 6y ago
Unrest starts when people had and lost. The people who were able to afford a BMW last year find themselves homeless this year.
True Believer has lots of insight into the circumstances than lead to unrest.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
- mc32 6y agoI think it starts when people have nothing left to lose. There’s no hope to lose, there’s no illusion left. On the other hand, some societies can descend quite a bit and be okay with going into more or less survival mode: witness Russia.
- munificent 6y agoNot "nothing less", but just less to lose than to gain. People are willing to gamble on a roll of the dice when the upside is larger than the downside.
- mc32 6y agoBut the risks for that upside can be pretty large. You cannot predict how things turn out: Mensheviks vs bolsheviks.
- int_19h 6y agoRussia had a lot of political unrest back in the 90s, when it was at the bottom of its descent. It elected extremist parties to parliament - commies had the majority for how long? - and street politics was also... messy at times. I remember growing up in that period, and back then it would have been entirely unsurprising to wake up one day to see ballet on TV where news are supposed to be. So I wouldn't call it a good example of being okay. It made it through that political unrest without blowing up as a whole (but with plenty of local crises, like Chechnya)... but it was not smooth sailing at all.