The Force of the Few Submits to the Power of the Many
The force of the few has many shapes and forms across history and includes such disparate groups as Hitler’s Brownshirts and Jefferson’s colonial objectors. It cuts both ways for good and evil but for the most part the list is pretty negative:
The Taliban in Afghanistan
Druglords in Columbia
Suicide bombers in Israel and Iraq
9/11 airliner hijackers
The Milosovic gang in Yugoslavia
Power brokers in Ukraine
Syrian influence in Lebanon
and of course the list could go on and on, sweeping across broad swaths of Africa, South America and Asia.
Mostly the abuses have gone on uninterrupted since the end of the Second World War, when the music suddenly stopped and whatever power existed at the moment grabbed the chairs vacated by colonial interests. East and West separated uneasily, punched out and hanging on the ropes to glare at one another across the coming decades. It wasn’t a good time for masses of world population and is only now beginning to show movement in the direction of collective freedom…