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I don't really have thoughts about this thread - though reading that book from the US Marine Corp could be interesting. However, your comment made me think: we

I don't really have thoughts about this thread - though reading that book from the US Marine Corp could be interesting. However, your comment made me think: we talk about "cycle breakers" in the context of inter-generational trauma, usually within a family or group. Are we now approaching a critical mass where we need an entire generation (or >50%) of cultural cycle breakers to actually progress social norms and political discourse?

than3 4y ago
From the history I've read, that number is much lower than 50%. You only ever really need 1/3 pushing in the right direction at the right time. Inevitably 1/3 will be passively content to go about their daily lives regardless as long as they remain comfortable, if you can incite 1/3 into various disunity campaigns so they preoccupy most of the attention, and cause destabilization, shifts can occur, and after a shift purges are not uncommon afterwards to solidify a new normal, leaving the remaining 2/3 majority. Similar to what happened in Hue, Vietnam back in the 70s. This is what having that 'harmless' information being collected enables. Its dark, but a lot of history is dark.