Engaging the Riots and Violence in France

So, I’ll just leave this here: Yes, violence is NEVER the solution in these circumstances and wildfire complexities.

The problem of juridico-political and/or racial and cultural inequity is one to which systems of governance classically apply linear solutions, quite unwittingly reinstituted g the matrix sacristan of self-propagating socio-affective turbulence. It is a poorly-managed problem and largely because those who percolate I to positions of power and authority are most often well-equipped to play the Machiavellian games of self-promotional aggrandisation whilesuffering an almost complete ineptitude in regards to sustainably remediating the very real problems with which they must engage. Those who enter these systems bearing sufficient intellect to even transiently resolve the problems are generally overwhelmed by stultifying bureaucratic inertia; they suffocate in unproductive complexity.

There is and can never be any one single, unchanging or simple solution to such complex social and cultural problems. Policy makers and their advisors need to orient themselves towards probabilistic forecasting, and to transparently engage their populations with open dialogue about these methods and idioms of communication or governance. Democraciesare not particularly good at this be asserted of the political game of providing lowest-common-denominator narratives as dissimulated solutions. Dictatorships are self-evidently worse.

So – my own prediction is that a legal and pecuniary crackdown will occur as a band-aid solution which only offsets and displaces the actual complexity of this problem to other (generally future) times and places. It  isn’t  entirely to rethink how governance functions in and for these large-scale social systems that are so subject to stochastic turbulence and effervescing uncertainty.

The question: are democracies serious about representing an equitably sustainable system of governance and, if so, how do we navigate our societies and cultures through the long tail and historically-derived consequences of what have quite clearly come to be seen as profoundly unjust systems? Are we just pretending to be fair and democratic forfeits and giggles or are we serious about justice and equity?