Set A: Ruling
Party – Reap benefits in current state when their party is in government
Set B: Government
loyalists – Reap benefits all year round, working for government
Set C: Paid Political workers – Reap benefits all year
round, working for or against government
Set D: Dormant – have become immune and more concerned with bringing food to
the table
Set E: Revolutionary
Nationalist – active protesters against any government
Set F: Opposition
Party – Invest in opposing current government to reap benefits in future
From my naive understanding, in order to have revolution similar to the Arab Spring, set E i.e. the Revolutionary Nationalist has to significantly inflate. The practical options are:
a. Employ set C i.e. political workers – this can only be done through incurring huge costs, funded by Set F, i.e. opposition party. This usually never works out, as the original agenda of Set E is lost in the process.
b. Employ set D i.e. dormant population – although the more appropriate approach, this can be achieved only through substantial length of oppression under the same party to build enough hatred and anger with the presence of a new revolutionary leader. Trouble is, this is highly unlikely given we have a memory refresh every 5 years. Also faint chance of this happening is immediately leveraged by Set F, the opposition party, therefore again, original agenda lost in the process.
c. Under the most unlikely event of a new party forming within set D&E, all other sets ensure it is neutralized to secure the investments they have made as incumbents – therefore the revolution becomes too costly for the dormant population to continue.
The main culprits from my point of view are the Political Workers – they have neither love for the nation, nor ethics behind the cause they fight for. Yet – they have played a pivotal role during each election in the last 20 years.
The dormant population has led itself into its own fate – we wait in traffic for 4 hours, watch the meter increase and complain on social media through our phones, instead of abandoning the rented vehicle and joining in a 30 minute march back home.
2 comments:
True that but cudnt u use more denonstatrative examples of crocs, jackals and sheeps.......I see them creatures getting popular in articles explainning the Arab uprising :p
Yeah good idea - problem is there's too many sets here, I need to open a whole jungle book episode !!
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