This country is so far away from any meaningful social disorder its unreal. People can quote the race riots of the eigties or the miners strikes or the poll taz demo's But come on apart from those involved there was no serious threat to the social fabric of this country. The comfort level of the majority is engineered (theres that word again) to be too high for any serious uprising of the masses. Theres not even a whisper in the wind of a national social uprising, Can't see it until the brownouts & real food shortages start. Not even if you took the ste support money off the millions unemployed would it acheive much. the many more millions are too comfy.
I sort of think the idea of revolution is a great idea though very romantic and I'm probably far too happy sat here dabbing away on a keyboard rather than soap boxing it somewhere or demonstrating with the risk of a beating from the police if it gets rowdy.
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Think i'll put the kettle on
Theres the rub 777 in "some" communities. If it was in all communities and all of the population felt, and i mean felt, that it was an issue that was fundamentally compromising their individual and collective freedoms and also their own standards of living, then pockets of dissension are going to be all their is.
Each and every time that little dissension becomes anything other than mildly more news worthy than a Jeremy Kyle 'contestant'failing a lie detector test, then action will be taken by the authorities to placate the public but not quite doing whats required or wanted but by moving the goal posts.
It isn't the same as history nowadays. Information = power. Why else do you think that we have camera's watching us every minute of everyday and I'D cards looming. Control of information and the rate its received and communicated is why nothing will happen.
It guess it is possible for something to happen but only after some extreme and I mean extreme incident. Something such as a nuclear accident or a massive earthquake. something which has an effect on all of te people and for which there is little or no control of lateral breakdown of national physical infrastructure i.e transport power water communication links. And think in this country how massive that catastrophe would have to be for our country not to be able to deal with, huge.
I'm sorry but Man has no say the state dictate's - "another brick in the wall kent" We're all in the machine.
Revolution? No, I dont think so - selfish self preservation and that phrase social engineering will prohibit such an act.