OCCUPY WALLSTREET!

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Originally Posted by pickled_heretic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

a mob always has a solution in mind, even if none of them admit it when asked. the french have a holiday devoted to this solution called "bastille day."

Murder is certainly a solution. If you look at the results of the French Revolution, you'll find that it solved none of their problems. They traded monarchy for Napoleon with millions dying in between. Eventually, people got tired of killing and war and they settled back into just living, but to say that the killing was a "solution" is a poor choice of semantics. It was an eruption with no clear goal other than to punish "someone" for the misery the mob experienced. They traded one government that caused misery for another that caused misery, followed by another that led to even greater misery.

The mob was manipulated by individuals that craved power. That many of these would-be leaders were themselves eventually guillotined doesn't change the fact that mobs are mindless, and even when they have legitimate grievances, or actually do something correct accidentally, they are not moved by reason or intellect. They literally have nothing in mind, only an emotional imbalance that demands action to reach equilibrium.