Events, Events, Events


You may recall from a few years ago how the Blair government in Britain was constantly obsessed with news management. This was really about placing perception above reality, by manipulating what the public thought about the government in such a way that people would ignore what was staring them in the face.

At the time, John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, made the comment that the Labour government could not completely control things because of “events, events, events”. He meant that even the most carefully-planned news agenda can be upset very suddenly, and in ways that those in power do not like. Perhaps it is to state the obvious, but it is worth reminding ourselves that our rulers are not omniscient or omnipotent.

Something is happening in Oregon. I doubt it will come to anything, but there is definitely ‘something in the air’ now. The lies are untangling, slowly. These rebels are not talking about race, at least not openly, but the racial question is the undercurrent of almost-all issues in American society: education, housing, crime, prisons, the media, agriculture, banking and finance, almost everything is a disguised racial issue.

Oregon, Paris, the 2015 ‘refugee’ crisis, Rotherham, Cologne, etc., illustrate two important observations about social change: things can change very radically, very quickly, and ‘events’ can upset our predictions and expectations. I think the system is homeostatic in nature, with its own internal regulation designed to absorb these shocks, but even this system can only take so much. Each shock delivered might appear not to affect the system’s fundamental stability, and might even strengthen it in some ways, by demonstrating its apparent resilience, but the system relies on popular acquiescence from the masses in their own exploitation. As the green curtain slowly lifts and the internal contradictions of the system and its papier mâché nature become apparent, people will slowly gain the confidence to challenge the existing order in different ways, whether through outright opposition or the withdrawal of co-operation. I truly believe this is already happening. I think we are already living through a revolution.

a31f30093714b2d3efea5e4ada5134f5Back in the 1780s, a French princess of the Bourbon-Navarre dynasty could look out from the Bastille or perhaps from her room at the Palace of Versailles, and she was assured that things would never change, her family would remain in control of a relatively peaceful, settled and ordered society, and that was just the way things were. Within just a few years, her head was on the block, and all the existing social assumptions had been inverted by a completely new and different system of civic thought based on classical liberalism.

It’s easy to feel intimidated by conformity and to believe that things will never change. The French Royals thought that they could ignore the demands for parliamentary representation from the masses who subsidised their luxurious lifestyles through a punishing tax regime. They turned a blind eye to the growing power and influence of an emergent middle class, a million of whom lived in urban centres, posing a significant threat to the feudal social order. They did not take account of the resentful peasants who paid tailee and undertook corvée. The seeds for revolution were sown and the delusional complacency of the old order was exploded.

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