Slimebeast said:
Scoobes said:
Slimebeast said:
It's just that it doesn''t work that way anymore. In the past desperate people were rioting on the streets but ever since the 1960's protesters aren't really angry and desperate. They're middle class who are well off economically. They're just intellectuals, anarchists and socialists who want to bring the nation down. Since they can't garner enough support in political elections (just watch those pictures of the rioters, the majority are clothed like hippies and commies) they take advantage of the street protest tradition.
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Rioting has always happened when the rich-poor divide becomes more and more apparent. The rich get ridiculously richer and the middle classes that asprire to become rich realise they are unlikely to ever reach that level.
When the bankers cause an economic crisis but then appear to have recovered rather quickly; rioting occurs. It's not really new. Similar things have been happening since the times of Anchient Rome (actually, probably before that thinking about it). Bankers are just the new aristocratic class. This is history repeating itself albeit in a modern European society.
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That's the classic socialist analysis. "Bankers the new aristrocacy"... lol that is so cheap.
It's wrong. It's actually a narrow group of people that protest on the streets. A fairly strong group. The weakest groups in society never go out on the streets (the sick, the crime victims, the piss poor, the abused, the addicts, the discriminated, the orphans, the lonely).
God, I hate socialist analysis of society.
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It's not really a socialist analysis, merely me applying what I currently know of human history to the modern day (and it's probably somewhat simplified). And it rarely matters who goes out to do the riots, as they tend to happen anytime a crisis highlights the rich-poor divide. All it usually needs is a catalyst such as a political decision or some charismatic speaker.
If you want my personal analysis of society it's that humans are incapable of governing themselves as everything seems to fail miserably.
I'm gonna stop before I start quoting Deus Ex... wait, I think I already did...
