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“Novelty, transience, diversity, and acceleration are acknowledged as prime descriptors of civilized existence.” Now there’s a big city devotee talking snootily about elite living.

Information overload as explanation for Waco Tx disaster (80 Branch Davidians dying in self-immolation or group-induced gunshots): “The FBI had such an intelligence overload that …they just fell back on past practice- and since they didn’t have any experience with religion, they treated it like a standard barricade” - Prof Robert Louden

Interesting example from the 1991 coup created by government, military, and KGB officers against Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet populace decided against the expert authorities and in favor of freedom “within hours of the junta’s announcement”. After 3 days of barricades and strategic defiance, coup is over.

“When it comes to freedoms, it is more dangerous to have given for a while than never to have given at all…Should these now established freedoms become less available, there will be an especially hot variety of hell to pay.”

So if you get Washington/federal victories in schools, public places, housing and employment, but you can’t get respect at home (or at least freedom from the 78 lynchings per year?) - and if in 4 years there are 530 “acts of violence” designed to prevent your kids from being educated with others’ kids….yeah you might decide that peaceful protests weren’t working.

“The idea that newly experienced scarcity is the more powerful kind applies to situations well beyond the bounds of the cookie study…a primary cause of political turmoil and violence.” James C Davies thinks revolutions are brought about after a sharp reversal follows an increase in improving conditions, e.g. American colonists revolting after Brits demanded a cut of widespread prosperity.