It’s not an exclusively American trait, it’s just human nature. Uproar generally only happens when the material security is not being met by the ruling power. For example, the French revolution arguably only happened because of food shortages at the time, which was blamed on the aristocracy. That’s why the smart demagogues provide just enough material security and freedom so as not to agitate the entire population.
Yep, there are two things that can trigger regime change: precarious drops in material conditions and concerted foreign intervention. The Ancien régime’s food and debt crisis, Czar Nicholas’ economic collapse, post-WWI German austerity and economic struggles, Cold War coups and power plays all over the world, etc… It’s the same story over and over.
The core value of sedentary civilization is stability and predictability. No population has ever, or will ever, flip their lives upside down and plunge into an uncertain power vacuum out of the goodness of their hearts. And yet ideologues on the internet insist that they can will revolutions into existence with memes.
It’s not an exclusively American trait, it’s just human nature. Uproar generally only happens when the material security is not being met by the ruling power. For example, the French revolution arguably only happened because of food shortages at the time, which was blamed on the aristocracy. That’s why the smart demagogues provide just enough material security and freedom so as not to agitate the entire population.
Yep, there are two things that can trigger regime change: precarious drops in material conditions and concerted foreign intervention. The Ancien régime’s food and debt crisis, Czar Nicholas’ economic collapse, post-WWI German austerity and economic struggles, Cold War coups and power plays all over the world, etc… It’s the same story over and over.
The core value of sedentary civilization is stability and predictability. No population has ever, or will ever, flip their lives upside down and plunge into an uncertain power vacuum out of the goodness of their hearts. And yet ideologues on the internet insist that they can will revolutions into existence with memes.