The masses are both inert and stupid. Moreover, overthrowing an established government requires resources. A revolution always needs organization, charismatic leadership, propaganda, and lots and lots of money.
Rather than quote your entire piece I will quote what I think is a summary you made early on.
My point was I think the world is (I suppose as it always is) in a very unique time when a Chinese company (lol company) can manufacture a simple application and capture the attention of an entire Western generation. The communication system of the people has changed in a way that was impossible to foresee for most during my own childhood.
The resources for revolution and warfare do cost a lot of money, yet some of the can be copied endlessly now for nothing. And by the very masses you intend to conquer. Digital trojan horses at the gates of every city. Already inside the gates, a million times. And digital defenses as bulwarks for freedom. The self sovereignty kind. Not the apple pie kind.
It is different now.
I dunno... I thought that about this bitcoin cycle too... And here's the thing... I think it IS different now, both in bitcoin and in this topic. And just the same as ever.
One thing that seems to be different about this particular time is it seems to me the vast majority of folks have NO IDEA what is happening. I may be among them. I do not think people realize how deep into the digital war we are.
The two great wars of the 20th century (really one war perhaps still going now) have been called the "World Wars".
Either we rename them someday (The Great Kinetic Wars?), or we eventually recognize they were never over in 1945 or 1950, 1955, 1971 , 2003 or 2020. Perhaps this is the culmination of all that, and the board has changed so much. But this is a World War in a sense we have never seen. On a scale that is truly planet wide. And perhaps we realize the point was never to stamp out "nazism/communism/capitalism" but to try to set the board in a way to take it all for whatever ism you want. And new powerful players have entered the game over the years. Some rather quietly.
Yeah. I agree with you. The masses really don't have a chance. They don't know what rising up even means, or where to go. They do not even know who their masters are. Certainly not themselves.
"May you live in interesting times", one culture in today's war once said.
"We've always been at war with Eastasia .", said the prophets of another.
Sums it up pretty well from my confused vantage.
Interesting times indeed.
