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Everything is the way it is, until it isn't anymore.
by electrondood 5y ago
Everything is the way it is, until it isn't anymore.
- watwut 5y agoOk, but revolutions really don't come out of nowhere. It just ... takes knowledge and skills and many people cooperating to produce one. I think the way they are taught through movies and schools makes us naive in a way. We imagine them just spring out of suffering or knowledge of "it is unfair". 1.) But oppressive regimes are proactively squelching them. Long before they can happen and they err on the side of imprisoning/killing/destroying lives of too many people rather then too little. 2.) It takes tons of work to make people react and make them react at the same time. The culture must be ready for it. People must trust someone and must believe there is success ready. The organizers must be ready to take power. That is reason why politicians, military leaders, intellectuals etc were targetted soon/first (by Stalin by Hitler whatever). Once those with experience of leading are done, others don't know how to do it even when they want to.