I haven’t heard the podcast for context but if he thinks “people aren’t willing to deal with the discomforts inconveniences and pain” of revolution, he’s only talking about a small handful of the people in this world. The white people in the imperial core.
Now not too long ago that handful of people had a disproportionately huge bearing on humanity’s prospects, so you couldn’t really fault anyone for ignoring everyone else in their evaluation. But that disproportionality is eroding, and it’s being accelerated as the world rejects the US.
So his statement about that specific set of ‘people’ may be true, but it increasingly doesn’t matter.
Yeah, he’s completely ignoring places like Afghanistan, where things are violently out-of-control. I’m pretty sure the scary sectarian violence and risk of starvation probably has a lot of folks over there ready to just say “fuck it, let’s burn this fucker down” because their lives are already so uncomfortable. The idea that revolution against violent religious fanatics would be less comfortable is a joke.
It’s a very elitist and out-of-touch Western take on the whole idea, but perhaps he only is referring to revolution in the West. Which just makes him Euro/Amerocentric.
I haven’t heard the podcast for context but if he thinks “people aren’t willing to deal with the discomforts inconveniences and pain” of revolution, he’s only talking about a small handful of the people in this world. The white people in the imperial core.
Now not too long ago that handful of people had a disproportionately huge bearing on humanity’s prospects, so you couldn’t really fault anyone for ignoring everyone else in their evaluation. But that disproportionality is eroding, and it’s being accelerated as the world rejects the US.
So his statement about that specific set of ‘people’ may be true, but it increasingly doesn’t matter.
Yeah, he’s completely ignoring places like Afghanistan, where things are violently out-of-control. I’m pretty sure the scary sectarian violence and risk of starvation probably has a lot of folks over there ready to just say “fuck it, let’s burn this fucker down” because their lives are already so uncomfortable. The idea that revolution against violent religious fanatics would be less comfortable is a joke.
It’s a very elitist and out-of-touch Western take on the whole idea, but perhaps he only is referring to revolution in the West. Which just makes him Euro/Amerocentric.