Will Social Change Upend The Status Quo ???

Here is a tantalizing essay by Charles Hugh Smith:

The nation is fragmenting because the Status Quo is failing the majority of the citizenry. The protected few are reaping all the benefits of the Status Quo, at the expense of the unprotected many.

As I have outlined many times, this unsustainable asymmetry is the only possible outcome of our socio-economic system, which is dominated by these forces:

1. Globalization – free flow of capital, labor arbitrage (workers must compete with the lowest-cost labor around the world).

2. Nearly free money from central banks for bankers, financiers and corporations.

3. Pay-to-play “democracy”– wealth casts the only votes that count.

4. State protected cartels that privatize gains and socialize losses.

5. A political system stripped of self-correcting feedback and accountability.

Once you understand the inputs and structure, you realize there is no other possible output other than unsustainably expanding debt and wealth/income inequality. Policy tweaks cannot change the output; all they do is provide an illusion of reform that serves the need of those at the top to obscure the systemic injustices and unsustainability of the extractive, exploitive, predatory, parasitic system that’s enriching them.

What do people do when centralized systems fail to deliver what was promised? They fragment into smaller “tribes” and find fewer reasons to cooperate in centralized systems. As historian-economist Turchin explained in his 2016 book Ages of Discord, human history manifests cycles of social disintegration and integration in which the impulse to cooperate in large social structures waxes and wanes.

You can read the rest @
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2018/01/social-change-will-upend-status-quo.html

All true, but how does this result in change benefiting We The People? We don't control the money supply, the food supply, the water supply, or the energy supply. Although many citizens are armed, we possess neither the will nor the leadership to make war on our upper class oppressors. We're fragmented by people like Hillary and Oprah, who would rather seize power for themselves and their girlfriends than actually solve any of our national problems. And we're infiltrated and surrounded by well trained police who would rather shoot all of us than give up their power, privilege, and pensions.

There will be social change all right, but it's not going to upend the system. Not by a long shot.