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# The Insurrection in Sri Lanka
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-insurrection-in-sri-lanka/
- Published: 2022-07-10T21:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-10T02:36:56.000Z
- Author: Reproduced with permission
- Tags: Politics, World Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04

**Monica Hughes PhD**  
[themariachiyears.substack.com](https://themariachiyears.substack.com/p/sri-lankan-insurrection)

Governments may simply not be able to control the chaos in time.

The Sri Lankan presidential palace was stormed and there are rumors he’s currently escaping the country. There are clips of protestors are having a dip in the presidential palace pool.

heh

I have some differences with Johnstone, but I appreciate her role as a passionate firebrand agitating against illegitimate power, and this is an excellent piece about the nature of propaganda and its goals.

Violence and chaos tend to be naturally avoided by humans, except when violence and chaos are a means of avoiding even worse fates.

![Our Entire Civilization Is Structured Around Keeping Us From Realizing We Can Do This](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_limit,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8d3da4a-9d9f-4f43-968f-ed5489c0da89_1011x547.png)

Our Entire Civilization Is Structured Around Keeping Us From Realizing We Can Do This

Listen to a reading of this article: Rise, like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you: Ye are many—they are few! \~ Percy Bysshe Shelley The video footage coming out of Sri Lanka right now has been the recurring nightmare of every ruler throughout history.

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/our-entire-civilization-is-structured

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