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Posted on 3-2-10 Don't be afraid of Change
By Alan Marston, 3 February 2010
In the end there's only one sound that poligarches fear, the raw cry of
mass protest from the street below.
I believe this is one rule people under 50 years old have not learned,
thinking instead a mass outbreak of protest on the internet or at an
election is sufficient to force change in a political-economy. Wrong,
those protests are manageable, comfortably so, profitably so.
The thing is, and this I have learned from many tough experiences, all
forms of protest are manageable, except the mass street protest. Neither
the organisers, participants nor vilified objects of a protest are able to
control or direct it once it reaches critical mass … and becomes a bomb …
and does effect change.
But, and there is always a but, in the end it takes high explosives to
shake loose long-standing, even if rotten, foundations - including a
society's. Social, economic, personal change is needed, wanted and even
pleaded for by many. It will be delivered to us one day, over the ruins of
much we assumed was eternal.
We moderns are united by the worship of at least one agent of creation,
change. At the same time modernism has the hubris to believe it can
control change, eliminate change's negatives and then sell it back to
itself at a profit.
That will change.
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