Comments: John Derbyshire: "Fifty years.... And still they riot."
So far it's just been a business negotiation between the vassals and their feudal lords. The vassals want more money. It happens now and again. The mundanes are as of yet mostly onlookers.
The vassals threaten violence. The vassals provide the fulords with the electoral wherewithal for power over the mundanes. The vassals first demonstrate their readiness towards violence. The next level is the limited random visiting of violence upon the mundanes. All mobsters know this, sometimes a corner grocery has to be torched to keep the rest in line and paying.
There is no next business level however. Either the fulords pay up, or the violence against mundanes spirals until the mundanes rise up. And then everybody loses.
Posted by John A. Fleming at August 30, 2016 6:06 PM