Social Turbulence and Governmental Form

Originally published on November 9, 2016. As per other reposts from my old blog, the usual caveat that the “Great Reset” is referring to a particular usage I had at the time and not to the WEF’s program applies here. Also note that the reference to Trump is referring to his first election in 2016.

One of the most commonly observed natural phenomena around us is that of turbulence.  We experience turbulence everywhere that we see fluid flow – in the air which airplanes pass through... and many other everyday things...  Turbulence is a chaotic phenomenon, in the “chaos theory” sense of the term...

Turbulent flows demonstrate several characteristics.

First, they are irregular...

Second, such flows are dissipative.  To maintain a turbulent flow requires constant input of energy...

I believe that we can draw a sound analogy between the natural scientific phenomenon of turbulence, and the social scientific phenomenon of “social turbulence,” which may be defined as “the unpredictable behaviour of a social or political system once a threshold level of sociopolitical energy has been reached within the system.”  The buildup of energy in a system that leads to it becoming turbulent is caused by “political frustration,” which occurs when a political actor is unable to successfully exercise the power within a sociopolitical system that he or she wishes to use...

When the energy within a system is high (i.e. a great deal of political frustration exists), turbulence occurs, which can damage the channel through which the flow is travelling (i.e. the institutions and other social ordering mechanisms existing within a traditional society)...

Democracies are ripe for social turbulence... They are essentially unpredictable over the long term, other than that they tend to fail after roughly two centuries or so (which seems to be a sort of “strange attractor” basin for democratic political systems)...

The result is a generalised “dumbing down” of the sociopolitical system to the lowest common denominator, which in turn damages the symmetry and order of society...

It has reached the point where many of the self-proclaimed democratic “elites” at the helms of these factions have taken to trying to extend national democracy beyond the nations themselves and to large numbers of foreigners who are being brought into western nations to try to replace the native populations when they threaten to become less supportive of the policies preferred by these transnational elites...