| Just on that, these situations also reach a point where their momentum begins to outweigh their initial causes, and, again, they are intensely frightening for people to live through. It’s at the point when violence becomes generalised that it becomes more (not entirely) ‘random’, and it’s at that point when a clash of orders starts to resemble real disorder. Here, we are a long way from politics, and we also should be a long way from celebrating ‘resistance’. Politics, after all, may be about the intensification of conflict, but it’s also about its containment. |
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