That’s how I see it. There is technically less violence so far, compared to 1968, but the divide today reminds me more of the divide just before the Civil War. We’ve been in a “cold” civil war for at least 8 years. And it’s getting progressively worse.
“We’ve been in a “cold” civil war for at least 8 years. And it’s getting progressively worse.”
Spot on.
I’ve said before -
A society **without rules** (call it a social contract if you will) is not a working society. Nor, is that ever to become one. Having rules and following same is what makes a rabble into a ‘culture’.
We currently have lots of rules, laws and yet we still are seeing things breaking down in areas (inner city)
I would add that if any “culture” (or society) that the person resides in openly accepts crime, rampart illegitimacy and drug dealing, for example, as a normal way of living, then that culture is past broken or dysfunctional.
That society is, in fact, engaged in constant, low order warfare against the larger, rule based participative society from which it is subtended. In this context, riots are just a spike in the ongoing and constant warfare with the larger whole.
So - to my earlier point - the ‘breakdown’ is less a rejection of the rules/laws and more like open warfare against the greater whole of the working parts of our Society.....
How long would the ‘inner-city’ and their related absolute dependency on others outside of the AO last without massive tax spending for water, sewer, electric and food/water or housing? I dare say the shelf life of those areas would be measured in hours. Witness: New Orleans before the hurricane...