...no chance!

I wonder whether our parts of the world will see a revolution again. Civil disobedience in western democracies doesn’t seem to go beyond strikes and demonstratrations and occasional clashes with law enforcement - usually following European football matches.

Seemingly functioning electoral systems have absorbed the major currents in society. All western democracies have left and right leaning groupings in their party landscapes with minor eccentric parties on the margins.

With plenty of bread and games there is no reason really to risk once life in the name of... say a better world. Granted, some people are better off than others, have better opportunies to move ahead and stay ahead, but generally speaking, very few are starving.

There are state funded schools everywhere, miserable as they may be, thrift shops pick up where more high end retail doesn’t want to go, and there is plenty of nonstop diversion around, for everything else there are drugs.

So, my bet is that we are done with this kind of bonding experience.