In the Middle East, when government falls, it has created power vacuums. That is history. Why would the future counter the past? If you don't listen to Alex Jones now, what do you do? Do you watch and listen to other people? I try to watch and listen to all kinds of people.
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History is not a fixed star but a process between people, power & knowledge distribution. People in a given geographical area choose their path through categorization of reality; what they believe and what they see. For example, in Afghanistan ancestral tribes rule the land and modern governments are ineffectual. Because the family ties, the mountains and the underlying difference in ideology. In Mexico the Federal government does not reach to rural native communities. The indigenous community live under a different language, code of conduct and set of autonomous laws. The natural default position of all peoples is universal absolute freedom. People choose their enslavement for the sake of convenience, the comfort of the crowd and acculturated normalcy bias. Even with a standing government you will have power-vacuums. These power-vacuums are dependent on the extent of resilience & autonomy people are determined to exercise.
I also try to get my information from many different people from across the political spectrum. I really enjoy listening to the other side and making a decision on the information presented. Sometimes I may listen to foreign analysis to get an outside perspective.
That makes me wonder how good and bad those rural Mexico communities are or might be in different ways. I guess it also depends on whether or not cartels rule and control some or all of those communities. I noticed a contrast between the government in North Vietnam with South Vietnam, that is when I was living in Hanoi and Saigon.