Re: Shadow Goverment
I think sometimes it depends on the problem. When people are oppressing minorities with violence, then for someone to call for peace is shorthand for 'Stop the violence, this is wrong.' It doesn't necessarily mean 'Stop showing the violence because it makes me feel uncomfortable; let me continue living in my bubble.' (mind you, sometimes that is exactly what they mean.)
I would agree that many people do like to present themselves as enlightened and liberal (and I'm not entirely sure this means the same thing in the US as in the UK but I may be wrong) when in fact they are anything but. That for me is the real problem. And as I quoted in an earlier post, 'All that is required for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.'
Quite WHY they do nothing is another matter, but it happens a lot. And it happens across the classes too. Partly I suspect this is because those who rule us are using divide and conquer tactics. Instead of singling out the culprits and dealing with them, an awful lot of people stay back in the shadows waiting to see who is going to win.
The problem with riots of course is not that they happen in the first place, (and frankly I'm surprised they don't happen more) it's that they often lose their direction, either because criminal elements join in, or because they have been infiltrated by agents provocateurs.
People need to develop their critical thinking much better. They need to organise and not allow the divide and conquer methods to work on them.
I think sometimes it depends on the problem. When people are oppressing minorities with violence, then for someone to call for peace is shorthand for 'Stop the violence, this is wrong.' It doesn't necessarily mean 'Stop showing the violence because it makes me feel uncomfortable; let me continue living in my bubble.' (mind you, sometimes that is exactly what they mean.)
I would agree that many people do like to present themselves as enlightened and liberal (and I'm not entirely sure this means the same thing in the US as in the UK but I may be wrong) when in fact they are anything but. That for me is the real problem. And as I quoted in an earlier post, 'All that is required for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.'
Quite WHY they do nothing is another matter, but it happens a lot. And it happens across the classes too. Partly I suspect this is because those who rule us are using divide and conquer tactics. Instead of singling out the culprits and dealing with them, an awful lot of people stay back in the shadows waiting to see who is going to win.
The problem with riots of course is not that they happen in the first place, (and frankly I'm surprised they don't happen more) it's that they often lose their direction, either because criminal elements join in, or because they have been infiltrated by agents provocateurs.
People need to develop their critical thinking much better. They need to organise and not allow the divide and conquer methods to work on them.
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