11 November

It’s belief in ‘the people’ as an actual thing that destroys all democracies, all republics. All populist utopias. Every attempt to lead a society somewhere is seen as a tyranny, against which an insurrection is then organised. The winners of any insurrection become the new supposed tyranny, and thus the cycle perpetrates itself without end. This is also how the counterculture sees society. As any attempt to tell people what to do being a tyranny, an oppression, to be resisted. Which creates a new tyranny of the victorious revolutionaries, and so on, forever and ever. Amen. Trump is just the latest going around of this circle in the US, but all democracies are now entering the same cycle. It’s also the mechanism of friendship groups at school. That’s no coincidence, this is basic human behaviour.