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Not a long update today- Just a quick passage from a book I have been reading for a Political Psychology class.

From Helplessness: On Development, Depression & Death
by Martin E.P. Seligman

“Historians have made us aware of “revolutions of rising expectations.” When the lower strata of society are ground underfoot, revolution tends not to occur; when people begin to expect, however, that their own actions might succeed, the time is ripe for it. A belief in uncontrollability should, of course, make the initiation of revolutionary acts impossible. When oppressed and impoverished people see all around them the possibility of power and affluence, their belief in uncontrollability shatters, and revolution becomes a possibility.”