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Originally Posted by jaguar
What interests me is how little it takes for cities to colapse. When you talk to guys that play out scenarios like this for a job, particularly for risk assessment work for financial firms. Take for example the heatwave in Chicago in 95, it was close to causing breakdown of the emergency services.
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"We were this -><- close to collapse" == "We want more money".
The edge is NOT all that close. And even when it's reached, total collapse of authority is not the result -- rather, things go out of control for a while, and authority re-asserts itself. See any riot for an example, or any large set of riots for a better example. Society -- at least Western society -- is STABLE. Depressingly so, for any revolutionary.