Reply #21: at some point in the 1990's... [View All]

[Ysabel]

during the first bush reign (i believe it was - i don't remember the exact date -perhaps it was 1991 or 1992)...

we (here in the u.s.) had not only reached - but surpassed - the point where the "have and have nots" exceeded the percentage of the "haves and the have nots" in france on the eve of the revolution...

i think that is very interesting and also very telling...

some scholars and others have noted that (when revolution happens) has to do with the cost of bread in relation to how much people earn in a day...

currently i'm reading an interesting study of class differences and concerning specifically what kinds of oppression/s lead to revolts - there are - history shows - a series of fairly regular steps that people go through - most often beginning with attempts to bargain, non-violent resistence (also underground / hidden and often un-spoken of - sorts of passive / aggressive resistance - as well as certain types of non-compliant behavior that becomes almost as if built into cultures which have been considered "lower class") and on - until at some point - things become - just too un-bearable for too many...

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editing - please excuse my sentence structure - which seems to me to be a bit redundant - i'm too sleepy at the moment to try and correct it...