Seems to me that about once a generation people allow the states they live in (and corporations they work for) to concentrate power to a point where it cannot be overlooked anymore? Kinda feel like you already have an answer you want tho (apologies if that's not the case).

[+] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net -6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Human nature. We need living people to tell us what happened the last time something happened society-wide, else we forget and repeat the same mistakes. It's the whole hard times make strong men thing. It's on about an 80 year cycle. The good news is that we're right at the point in the cycle where real changes are easy to make.

Read the book The Fourth Turning for many examples of the pattern repeating.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’s the whole hard times make strong men thing.

Which is literal fascist propaganda

[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

So's the 👌hand sign, I suppose I'm going to get dogpiled for that too?

Look outside, (big ask for this website), we're literally in hard times made by weak men.

I swear, this site is worse than 4chan about groupthink. Someone uses a slightly weak example or a cancelled idiom and all your minds just shut off and you start parroting your self selected propaganda.