Thursday, February 3, 2022

When the Network Effect Kicks In

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

― Victor Hugo

The trucker revolt in Canada is looking increasingly like a nationwide awakening. It's not merely a demonstration or a gathering of rebels that the elite can ignore. There are leaders, but they are not central to the movement. Demonstrations will continue no matter what happens to the organizers. In fact, arrests will only accelerate the awakening, and when the awakening is total, there will be few places to hide for those who planned and executed the totalitarian push.

From what I can gather, we're seeing the network effect kick in. People have found their likeminded peers, and they have communicated their frustrations. When the elite pushed a segment of these into a corner, some decided to drive to Ottawa with their grievances, and that was all it took to get the ball rolling.

What started out as a relatively small movement has snowballed into a massive show of force that the elite is desperate to hide. But the more they try to hide it the more obviously complicit they become, and that's not going to look good in retrospect. Seeing that people are waking up, and that they will demand retribution for the evils that have been committed against them, politicians and journalists are starting to switch sides. The dominos are about to fall.

The network effect is always slow to get started. It takes time to establish the base. However, once the framework is in place, as it appears to be by now, very little is needed to set the whole thing going, and once that happens there's nothing that anyone can do to stop it.

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Domino effect

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