To
see the big picture, we must shift our conventional dualist view to
an holistic perspective. The hybrid capitalist/socialist system
we've lived in since the mid-20th century is our fundamental reality
that few realise exists: most people habitually focus on only one of
those dimensions, instead of on both.
The
gfc bail-out of failed Wall St corporations enraged the political
right in the USA because it was a blatant socialist use of taxpayer
funds. The only political leader here to mention this was James Shaw
in his victory speech a year ago, advising us to get real and
understand that the control system is hybrid.
The
globalist Bilderberger project will proceed regardless if it takes
the Brexit hit. The controllers know it is lifting too many
third-worlders out of poverty to be allowed to fail. Their
traditional strategy of using puppets from the left concurrently with
puppets from the right will retain support from the political
establishment of most countries. The democracy sham captivates
mainstreamers.
So
for the cognoscenti, our choices hinge on identity politics - we are
constrained by the culture of individualism to do our own thing, so
the status quo will persist accordingly. To shift away from it to a
better world requires collaboration, working together for the common
good. Been there, done that. Hell is other people, right? Identify
with the former path, we're merely commentators, so we're part of
the problem. Even if we know we're also part of the solution.
Both/and logic applies.
So,
if we identify with a small group of folk who are actively trying to
catalyse the solution, then co-creating a better world gets more
traction. Play a different game than the one the controllers have
set up. Become a team player. That's how the Bolsheviks did it.
The
left/right democracy game uses the neoliberal agenda to recycle what
worked in the 19th century - when the market prevailed over the
bureaucrats. It's a business-enabler system, in which both left &
right have a common interest in creating wealth & jobs for mutual
benefit. The controllers ensure that the right get most of the
wealth, the left get barely enough, but leftist leaders get political
careers as lapdogs of the capitalists & more wealth than their
comrades (Clintons, Blair).
Now
we're living in a time when the masses are starting to lose faith in
the system, thus the drift towards something different. But few see
the alternative clearly yet, so inertia recycles business as usual.
The more we agree on how to constitute the alternative, the more it
will coalesce as an option in the public mind. Remember how many
years the Bolsheviks took to develop consensus around their plan.
Remember that `bolshevik' means minority!
Tipping
points are significant, but not in a predictive sense. The notion
derives from chaos theory in the late '80s, before Gladwell made it
famous at the millennium. It's germane because we're all enmeshed in
complex systems, which can enter rapid transitions into quite
different states at different times. Some are gaian/natural
systems, some social - some are political, some are economic systems.
Holism isn't so ephemeral really, and the notion of interlocking
subsystems with cascading influences is conveyed in popular culture
by the `turtles all the way down' metaphor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
The
timing and outcome of such transitions are indeterminate, both in
principle and practice. This view is now established in the science
of complexity. The political relevance is that any status quo is
vulnerable to being destabilised by unforeseen obscure factors. A
good example: most historical accounts of WW1 cite the assassination
of Arch-duke Franz Ferdinand as the trigger. A cascade of political
shifts rapidly shifted various countries around Europe into war.
If
activists become conscious of their identity affiliation with any
group of folks who aspire to catalyse solutions to social problems,
they can shapeshift into that identity whenever they are ready,
willing & able to spend time and energy co-creating a better way
of doing things. This shift away from subjective individualism and
narcissism enables the collaboration we all need more of. If we
use the spirit of play, co-creating a better world can be fun - then
collaboration becomes enjoyable rather than hard work! Forging
a group identity on a common-interest or mutual-benefit basis then
becomes the next stage in the development of the political expertise
of the activist, and it is when competence is demonstrated by both
contributor and group in the interface with mainstream society that
the game-changing begins. That's the triggering of the tipping
point, when the transition from the status quo to something better is
catalysed.
