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It's definitely a frustrating time we live in. I see a lot of people talking revolution but its largely adopting a language handed down from the 1960s. Retro-revolt if you like, as if all people want these days is their own version of an Abbie Hoffman. Shifts in economic, racial, gender and class politics over the last quarter of a century have rendered much of the thinking associated with the sixties counter-culture even more misguided than they were at the time. Protests against the Vietnam war, racial segregation, nuclear arms, etc., were straightforward compared with the more deeply interlocking issues that face us today.
How we tackle them is of course the great problem in that it'll clearly take massive infrastructural change and a period of potential transitional unrest, but whatever changes need to be made they need to be based on facts rather than received dogma.
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