Whenever the world looks like its falling apart, look towards the elders, men of great experience and take a look at how they are reacting. If the old men are scared, then the world is pretty much doomed. But men of great experience have lived so long that almost nothing surprises them. After all, there are men out there that had to fight in WW2. Compared to D-Day, nothing after that seems like that big of a deal.
History tends to run in cycles and you might realize you are getting older when you start seeing things repeat. In the last few weeks, protests have been organized all over cities of America. Mostly peaceful demonstrations but you still see stuff like fires, looting, assaults, and that sort of thing. It tends to happen in election years and whenever the media hypes up a murder. I remember the riots from 2014 and 2016 in Ferguson, Baltimore, and Chicago. But, I was thinking about the recent protests. The last time I saw that much of an organized protest was 10 years ago. It was the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Back then, they wanted accountability for the rich who created the financial meltdown of 2009. Actually, I can't remember what they were trying to accomplish or how successful they were. I don't recall more than one banker going to jail for the financial meltdown.
Today, I'm not sure what BLM is trying to achieve. The biggest thing they are asking for is either defunding the police or abolishing the police. But to what extent? Are they trying to do this all over America? Will they try to establish new police with them in charge?
In both sets of protests, there are people trying to take over land and make some sort of new society. Neither one will last any significant amount of time.