[email protected] posts a thoughtful take on power struggles historically and how they relate to finding a balance within a community in @[email protected]
[email protected] posts a thoughtful take on power struggles historically and how they relate to finding a balance within a community in @[email protected]
A tragic observation, to be sure, but there's also the idea that we're currently in the "oligarch" model and struggling between the "king" and "democracy" paths. Hope we take the correct path.
Absolutely, power has been agglomerating in larger and more consolidated bodies over the past few decades in the western world (notably right-wing parties fuelled by rage and the tech behemoths fuelled by cash), so it's a question of whether there'll be grass-roots energy pushing back to claim more power for people or whether it will end in a more forceful consolidation of power, either by oligarchy or would-be king (though the latter seems unlikely, as there's no one both charismatic enough and driven enough to claim the crown, but who knows).
Fingers crossed that the end result brings us a better world.