Tipping Point? | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust

Jan. 13, 2016

“The long and the short of it is, there is no important idea that stupidity does not know how to make use of, for it can move in all directions and is able to wear all the garments of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has only one garment and one road and is always at a disadvantage.” (The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil)

Things change, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. This dynamic exists in all relationships without exception. Relationships are constantly being made and broken, alliances formed, reformed, or destroyed, joined and separated -- conjunto today separado tomorrow. This has always been the normal state of human affairs. We understand that relationships are at times defined by convenience, mutual needs under particular circumstances which, when those circumstances change, so too the relationships.

Social contracts defining political relationships such as democracy are based on trust that the foundational definitions will hold over time and circumstances and for all members equally. When beliefs fail to reflect experience trust is inevitably displaced by disillusionment and disappointment which inevitably segues into resentment and anger.

No amount of rhetoric or sermonizing can assuage the indignity of inequality -- social, economic, or political. When the foundational conditions defining a society, country, or international agreement fail, become inconsistent, or are regularly violated the required trust, the “glue” dissolves taking the contract with it. The social history of the United States speaks to this truth, since its inception failing to deliver its promises of social equality never mind economic.

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