• @SocialMediaRefugee
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    11 year ago

    People at the top do not support any kind of social turmoil because stability is what makes them wealthy and keeps them there. The last thing they would want is to lose control. People don’t even want to invest in unstable countries.

    You don’t need modern social media and podcasts to have turmoil. They didn’t exist in revolutionary Russia or France.

    • @Touching_Grass
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      11 year ago

      People at the top are not any more homogeneous than people at the bottom. All people and groups want more power. They’re all jockeying for better positions. If you’re the political consultant for a party whose values are dying with an ageing population then you need a zeitgeist to reignite the youth to see your party in a new light. To accomplish that you need turmoil. Turmoil is where opinions change. So powerful people leverage the average persons gripes and anger to create just enough turmoil to upend the stays quo so they can be the ones to narrate what new generation will see them as. Things don’t change when people are content.

      Go back to those events in history and you’ll see the same power brokers organizing events.