by evilgenius » Thu 07 Mar 2019, 12:46:15
There's a lot more danger coming from what the internet is becoming than from what this thread is all in a lather about. Riots, and then what? Riots presuppose there is something underneath that the people want, but aren't getting. An extension of that argument supposes that there is an alternative system in the people's minds that they would like to impose. It's a huge stretch to think that Americans are going to riot to impose some form of Communism. Nobody in local neighborhood America has the slightest idea how to maintain the levers of production. They can't keep the lights on all by themselves. When their water has lead in it, they don't know what to do. All they could possibly do would be to scrape some excess goods off of show rooms, and out of what is today very small back room storage. There would be no pressing for control involved. We are talking about a populace that needs to be led, not that will do the leading.
As I said, there is more danger from the internet, for it is from where these people will be getting the understanding of who they are. The influences they encounter there will organize them into what passes for organic structure. A scary example of that is something I read on the BBC this morning about a woman in Germany whose daughter was killed while she was away. She found her stabbed to death when she got home. Some ultra-nationalist leader in Germany got hold of the story and sent out messages on social media blaming Muslim immigrants. His messages fit well with a meme of Muslim immigrant rape and murder going around within the country. It was a manifestation of the hatred and fear of the outsiders that was engendered within the far right and had spread out to the general populace as a result of Chancellor Merkel's decision to accept a great number of refugees at that point in the European immigration crisis. The murderer turned out to be a German born boy. He had nothing to do with the immigrants, even though the rhetoric blaming them had said that no German could do such a thing. Recently, even though the murderer was a native German, the woman had to clean anti-Muslim graffiti off of her daughter's gravestone. The internet implanted meme was that deeply buried within the mind of the populace that even the public display of the truth was not enough to counter it.
Another such story comes from Mexico. I believe I related this on some other thread. Two men came into this small Mexican town one day to buy building supplies. They were from outside, in the countryside. They had been working on a house remodel, I think, and run out of materials. On their way to the building supply business they were accosted by a mob. An internet rumor had been going around that a child had been raped and killed, or Satanically sacrificed, something like that. Anyway, it got around on Instagram and Whatever that these two men must be the perpetrators. No child had anything done to it. That was all an internet based fiction born in the mind of people who live to make such things up. The trouble was that the people accepted the story, hook, line and sinker. The mob burned the two men alive right in front of the police station.
These are the kinds of things we most have to fear when we live in a society which is so derivative of others who pull all of the strings. We are used to accepting the philosophies that compose our way of thinking from others. We are used to getting along because we don't see our way to the top. We have an understanding of the top, but we don't think we can be part of it. I don't see a civil war in the cards for America. I see a whole bunch of people who become ever increasingly marginalized, and do nothing about it. They may ironically lash out from time to time, in ways that actually point out the people's actual lack of control. A mass populace needs certain forms of unification through which it acts in order to exercise control. America is lacking in that for various reasons.
There is a huge infrastructure crisis looming on the horizon, as electric cars begin to point out how inadequate our infrastructure is. Many investors are thinking that the country will go all electric within a decade or two. Well, along the way we will have to answer the problem of how we are going to charge all of those electric cars, when we don't have the infrastructure to do so. There will be a period where the answer to that is hybrids, which are charged by being driven around while powered by gasoline. Eventually, though, we will have to decide what kind of infrastructure we want. The hybrids will only be a stop gap answer, although one which an indecisive public can prolong. At some point, it will be up to average Americans to decide what they want. It will be at that time that they will have a chance to regain what you might call collective independence, by actually sorting out various plans and picking one. The resulting unification may empower one and all.