I always felt that it would be needed to make real changes to help root out all of the corrupt officials in our world. It's explain better in this video but thinking of making more. I understand it won't appeal to everyone and there will be more coming. It's best to research information to find out what is really going on with our world.
I'd like to think that there could be a world-wide revolution, or at least some semblance of world unity under a coalition government of some sort.
I've looked at history and our current situation, although it's hard to truly research what is really going on in this world since it's impossible to see what's inside men's hearts. The only thing we can look at is the results and impact on society, or as the Bible might say "you will know them by their fruits."
Without really identifying the cause or who's behind it, I will say that, whoever is running the world, they've been doing a lousy job of it lately. I'm not really that devoted to illusory ideals such as "freedom" or "democracy," but even tyrants have to do
some things right once in a while. If they're doing a bad job of it, then it shows.
If they're utterly incompetent and/or out of touch with their own people, then they invariably lose whatever hold they had and fall out of power. That's what happened to Louis XVI, Nicholas II, Kaiser Wilhelm, and the Nationalist Chinese government - among others.
Of course, there are those in the West who will say that we're far better off now than we were in previous eras, as well as point out that many of us are living far better than much of the rest of the world which still lives in primitive squalor.
Many in the West fear a world government for that reason, since they sense it would entail a global redistribution of resources - among other things. Many fear that there's not enough to go around already in a world with a population of nearly 7.5 billion and growing. There's no historical precedent for this; we've never had this many people on the planet at one time.
Being to produce enough food and having the means to transport it and distribute it seems quite daunting enough on a national scale, let alone a global scale. A lot of people have criticized what is done with the food supply - corporate farms replacing family farms, the use pesticides and other chemicals, along with huge food processing plants. But we've increased food production and made it less labor intensive. With modern methods, fewer numbers of people have to toil in the fields like they did in past centuries.
All that aside, I have to admit I've given up on the idea that there will be any kind of revolution, at least not anything that would originate in the West. Back when I was a kid, I heard a lot of people talk about "revolution" like it was just around the corner. It was all over popular culture and talked about, at least in an abstract, theoretical way.
During the 60s and 70s, there was a noticeable loss of faith among many. The older institutions were being widely rejected, tradition was being scorned, and more people stopped believing in many of the ideals they had been taught about this country and our way of life. This was true for both left and right.
The left had a natural mistrust of the wealthy elite, the corporations, and the military-industrial complex, among other elements of society (religion was another one). The right, sensing that their institutions and way of life were being attacked and falling by the wayside, also developed a mistrust of the elite in that they felt they were selling America down the river. Both sides had overriding fears of another world war which could go nuclear. Both left and right had a certain number of violent extremists and radicals who supported, at least in theory, the idea of violently overthrowing the government.
I've noticed that such sentiments have subsided and diminished to quite a degree in the intervening decades between then and no. I think the so-called "Reagan Revolution" might have satisfied the right to such a degree that most of them fell in line with the government, while the left was somewhat divided and confused - and they probably never really had the stomach for revolution in the first place.
Public perceptions of the military were also somewhat "rehabilitated" since the days of the Vietnam War when people saw them as "baby killers." Once again, people saw them as heroes and defenders of our "freedom" (such as it is). There was definitely a noticeable shift that was taking place, as patriotism had enjoyed a resurgence (which has lasted to the present day), and there was also clearly a milder form of "red scare" that was going on (although not quite as bad as the McCarthy era).
But throughout all this, things still managed to hold together. The grocery stores continued to be stocked with food. Most people still had cars and the gas to operate them (despite shortages and massive price jumps which ruffled a lot of feathers - but not enough to lead to upheaval). People still had plenty of entertainment, luxuries, comforts.
Young people in suburbia weren't really as politically active as their 50s and 60s counterparts, but they did embrace the sex, drugs, and rock & roll with somewhat reckless abandon. Crime was skyrocketing, leading many to start putting bars on their windows, forming neighborhood watch programs, and wanting to take a tougher stance on crime. As a result, the police were no longer the "pigs" they were once thought of, and they also became heroes and defenders in the eyes of the public once again.
I think the general attitude from people I talk to is that, they're seemingly aware that things are not what they seem, but they're at a point where they're comfortably numb and materially contented - for the most part. They might believe in the back of their minds that someday, the S. might hit the fan, but until that happens, few people see much reason or cause to rock the boat in any way. Despite whatever corruption or odd shenanigans may take place in the upper echelons of power, people seem relatively content and provided for.
Some might see that as irresponsible complacency, apathy, and a cynical form of tolerance of a corrupted government, but many believe that what we have now is as good as it gets. Many people also concede that the government and ruling class are far too powerful - with technology and tools to monitor/surveil the population and an extremely potent arsenal of weapons. And even if some would-be revolutionaries were ambitious enough and motivated enough to put together some sort of potent fighting force of his own, it would likely end up being a bloodbath.
I can't say that I would blame too many people for wanting to avoid that or to not participate in such a thing. Revolutions can actually be pretty messy. I think people look back on our own American Revolution with a certain quaint sentimentality, but even that was a pretty nasty affair when you really come down to it.
As long as most people's bellies are full, they have a roof over their heads, the lights keep working, and the basic elements of society hold together well enough to at least maintain the lifestyle we currently have - then I don't think very many people truly care about whatever games of power are being played by those at the top.
Even if "9/11 was an inside job," as many people claim, there might be many more who may even believe that, yet don't really care all that much. That's the sad truth of it all. Most seem relatively satisfied with their lives. Even if they know that things could be much better, they can also look around at the rest of the world and how most of the world's population lives and be graphically reminded that things could also be much, much worse.
In the long term, I can sense that there will be some consequences as the world's population levels continue to rise and the resource base becomes more and more depleted. Not to mention the loss of arable farm land and even possible shortages of fresh water. There will be environmental pressures from climate change as well, along with a great deal of geopolitical instability. There's a greater likelihood of a world war than a world revolution.
I think the only way the planet will ever be united is if some enterprising world leader becomes hellbent on world conquest, conquers the entire world, and sets up a unified regime which rules over the entire globe. It would likely be an iron-fisted tyranny and a pretty crappy deal for most humans...but after a few centuries, it might progress into a far better society in the long run.
That may be something that people instinctively need. They don't really want shadow governments. They need a "man of the people," a "Caesar" to rise up among the oligarchs, kill off all the other oligarchs, and become supreme ruler. That's the inevitable result anyway - among a government of pirates, cutthroats, and thieves. Thieves always fall out and start fighting with each other. We can see signs of this happening with the perceived decline in civil discourse in this country, along with some uglier, more incendiary rhetoric being floated about these days.
Anyway, those are more long-winded thoughts on the ideas you raised regarding the possibility of revolution. It was a good video, and you made some good observations.
Some involving the religious spiritual side and the end times and connections to it.
