| |
|
i wasn't gonna bother with this thread, but fuck it - my psychic cohld is raging and i've been unconscious much of the afternoon. 'Sides, it seems a serious (if oversimplified) question, and so far has acted as nothing more than a pretext for wisecracks.
if you're genuinely asking what will it take to spark an actual revolution - well, much more apparent inequality than is present in the post-industrial west. also, the hardening of governments into tyrannies - and blatant exploitation and persecution of everyone beneath the top strata.
the conditions for revolution are unlikely to surface when the first world can use the third world as its real frontline theatre of operations. i'd basically say that the vast bulk of first world citizens are in a comfortable position - and the majority of them realise it.
and i think that when chrome says (re: What will it take to change social control?): "A changed mindset." ...i essentially agree. barring an cataclysm in the west, the physical situation necessary to propel the masses into revolt just aren't there.
besides, right now there's supposedly a majority that actually believe in the policies of the government, that work for the corporations, that happily identify as consumers. unless yr uprising is of the revolutionary vanguard into centralised control variety, this must change.
living in democracies dissipates much of the genuine opposition, the mass media can be relied upon to provide a basically capitalistic ideology, whether overt or subliminal... and yeah, the people. if the people aren't sufficiently unhappy, if they aren't so focused on what would be their ideal - if there was one ideal for all these people - if there is still some small belief in their democratic power...
if, as you're alleging, we're living in fascist states - then they're democratic fascist states, and that's what you have to unpick first. |
|
|
