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The Second Law of Societal Dynamics

50 Word Challenge #73: Powering Down

Alma Meek
The Bad Influence
Published in
Jan 20, 2022

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Entities in power tend to stay in power. Entities oppressed must cause unrest. It’s a law of social physics. Just as it takes a lot of energy to heat water to a rolling boil, so does it take a lot of society to create a vacuum the powers will abhor.

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