- Moira_Mayhem ( @Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org ) 4•5 months ago
There is another solution, the French pioneered it.
The French just brought it to the forefront of modern history, but there’s nothing new about the What or the Why of the French Revolution. This is a simple cause/effect relationship that many societies have experienced. Too much concentrated power, whether through wealth or military might, will eventually be torn down and returned to the People.
- Moira_Mayhem ( @Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org ) 3•5 months ago
Ok I admit you are correct, all three Roman slave rebellions were of a very similar stripe.
I should have said ‘There is another solution that the French knew all about’.
I’d like to share your optimism, but over the last century we’ve undergone a radical shift towards power inequality: where before one needed 2 people in 12h shifts to track and spy on the movements of 1 person, now all they need is 3 peoole in 8h shifts to oversee the datacenter tracking and spying on the movements of millions.
We aren’t yet at the “1 person giving orders to a self-repairing datacenter controlling a million drones”, but we are closer to that, than to the French Revolution or any earlier scenario.
An interesting read!