Subject: The savagery of the dispossessed
The concept of "democratic rights" as proclaimed by the French Revolution was also the prerequisite for the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Both were born on the back of terror. The Jacobean terror in Paris matched Lenin's tactic of irradiation by extermination of all opposition to the 'Parties' rule. Ideology over-rode the normal compassion mankind can feel towards its fellow man and millions of people were put to death or shipped off to the gulag, which often amounted to the same thing, without a moments thought. Ideology be it religious or secular has a habit of misunderstanding the means with the end.
In both, the revolt against their individual monarchies replaced one despotism for another, the aim, to release mankind from suffrage was subsumed by the acceptance of the violence needed to change the status quo. Violence begets violence and the freedom to inflict violence become persuasive, the fine balance between freedom and responsibility is broken.
On a less grand scale we see it in society today as the freedom to protest our rights overwhelms our compact with society to understand our responsibility to earn our rights by manifesting behaviour which contributes to the progress we all can make to ensure society is balanced and fair.
Society today is clearly unfair as the spoils of our labour largely contributes to the riches of a few. From this flows all the imbalance in health and opportunity which creates the dissatisfaction so many of us feel. The disproportion fuels this dissatisfaction such that our assumed entitlement buries any sense of cohesion and like a disturbed ants nest we lose coordination.
The revolutions of the past were based on just such as this, dislocation within society and a focus provided by a few silver tongues.
Only the false security of the credit card and the balm of consumerism prevents a kick back to that undemocratic, unequal and immoral concoction, Globalisation. The faceless multilateral organisations and the hedge funds who swop their financial allegiance at the whisper of a better deal, the conglomerate who's boardroom is made up of players with fingers in all the other boardrooms, the dissembling of truth such that the population is unable to make rational decisions. All this leads to the perfect storm where, with little to lose the general public revolt and dismember the artificial norms so carefully built up by an ordered but unequal society for ones based on the savagery of the dispossessed.
The concept of "democratic rights" as proclaimed by the French Revolution was also the prerequisite for the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Both were born on the back of terror. The Jacobean terror in Paris matched Lenin's tactic of irradiation by extermination of all opposition to the 'Parties' rule. Ideology over-rode the normal compassion mankind can feel towards its fellow man and millions of people were put to death or shipped off to the gulag, which often amounted to the same thing, without a moments thought. Ideology be it religious or secular has a habit of misunderstanding the means with the end.
In both, the revolt against their individual monarchies replaced one despotism for another, the aim, to release mankind from suffrage was subsumed by the acceptance of the violence needed to change the status quo. Violence begets violence and the freedom to inflict violence become persuasive, the fine balance between freedom and responsibility is broken.
On a less grand scale we see it in society today as the freedom to protest our rights overwhelms our compact with society to understand our responsibility to earn our rights by manifesting behaviour which contributes to the progress we all can make to ensure society is balanced and fair.
Society today is clearly unfair as the spoils of our labour largely contributes to the riches of a few. From this flows all the imbalance in health and opportunity which creates the dissatisfaction so many of us feel. The disproportion fuels this dissatisfaction such that our assumed entitlement buries any sense of cohesion and like a disturbed ants nest we lose coordination.
The revolutions of the past were based on just such as this, dislocation within society and a focus provided by a few silver tongues.
Only the false security of the credit card and the balm of consumerism prevents a kick back to that undemocratic, unequal and immoral concoction, Globalisation. The faceless multilateral organisations and the hedge funds who swop their financial allegiance at the whisper of a better deal, the conglomerate who's boardroom is made up of players with fingers in all the other boardrooms, the dissembling of truth such that the population is unable to make rational decisions. All this leads to the perfect storm where, with little to lose the general public revolt and dismember the artificial norms so carefully built up by an ordered but unequal society for ones based on the savagery of the dispossessed.
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