I don't have any close friends in Los Angeles who can give me a more eyewitness account of what is happening with the protests, riots and insurrection (?) there, so have to go on the images and information from the media. However, from the looks of things, it doesn't actually look like that many people are involved, yet the police are "overwhelmed" and the military has been sent in to help... inflame things further.
My take away from all of this is:
States are fragile.
Not just the United States of America, but all states are fragile. Because if a city police force is overrun by what is a very small part of the entire population to the point that the military is brought in - what happens if this starts in all major cities, and smaller cities? Back in 1992 there were the LA riots that took place, but that was "localised" because of the event that led to it. Also, there was no internet then to spread the word and wind up the masses like there is today.
This group is again a sub-group of the population, but a larger, more diverse group, spread across the country. This makes it more "contagious" than past protests, and it is going to benefit from a changed culture where people will join a "cause" at the drop of a hat, without much thought and a nihilistic attitude that tends toward violence. Not only this, it is being fuelled by extremely polarized politics that are looking to gain more control through the chaos.
No one is talking about the Trump v Musk fight now, are they?
Convenient.
And as said, this is in the US at the moment, but the entire global societal shift has created a tinderbox waiting for a spark in pretty much every country on earth. Except for possibly North Korea. And, while currently this particular protest is concerning a sub-group, I don't believe it is going to take much more economic disparity and hardship for larger, and increasingly more diverse and more "normal" protests to start. And if that happens, what can a state do - start shooting its citizens?
Yes.
Yesterday I wrote an article on "how to destroy the next generations" and if you read through the suggested list of methods and acknowledge that they are all in play in society now and have been pushed for decades - where we are today is an inevitable outcome. And where we are headed tomorrow is not going to be any better. Because to be in a better position, the entire world needs to change tact, including the way the entire economy works.
It isn't about learning from the past (other than not repeating it), because all that does is make us use a broken template of what didn't work to create an assumption of what should work - which tends to be the opposite to the extreme. What needs to happen is a fundamental shift, meaning that no creating an entirely new method of approaching this life for humanity.
But people aren't interested.
Instead they will tether themselves to one side of the argument or another, without putting the thought in to realise that not only are both sides wrong, the entire setup is a false dichotomy that is used to divide and control them. But, they are too smart to be fooled by this, aren't they? They know their side is better than the other.
Which murderer is better, the one who killed ten people, or the one who killed eleven?
This world is being absolutely torn apart, because people are unwilling to behave well. This goes for all people from all groups. Other than young children, there are no innocents in this. We all are part of the ecosystem in some way, and we all could make life better, but it would mean being better ourselves.
Are you going to be better?
Don't lie to yourself - it is pathetic.
Stop buying into the shit being dealt from all sides of the political spectrum, and start fucking thinking and acting for yourself. Start doing what you believe is right, all the fucking time. Whether you are raising your kids, or talking to the barista who got your coffee order wrong.
DO THE RIGHT FUCKING THING.
The majority of people won't though, will they? So, we are going to live in an increasingly violent world where people are reactive based on their emotions, that are triggered by lower and lower level "harms" and the subsequent behaviours will be worse. The average person is moving backward along the evolutionary scale, and acting on instinct alone. But unlike the instinct of an animal, it is the flawed instinct of a preconditioned human, with a fantasy world of opinions driven mostly by imaginary fears.
Can't blame an animal acting on its nature.
Is it the same for a human who has chosen a nature of ignorance?
They still made a choice.
The governments of the world should be paying close attention to what is happening in LA at the moment, because it is going to be an increasingly common occurrence in most countries in the not too distant future, and it is going to be engineered to happen more and more by those who can benefit from the chaos. Who'd have thought we'd get the world to a point where civil war becomes good for business?
Yet here we almost are.
And it is just the beginning.
Taraz
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