Me:It's certainly possible that I overestimate the movement's strength. Self-delusion is the greatest enemy of any who seek truth (actually it's everyone's greatest enemy ... just not everyone realizes it.) As you say, time will tell but do ke...ep in mind that NO significant change in the human condition has ever been visible until well after the fact, save to those participating most directly.
The piles of skulls mounded up by the totalitarian ideologies of the past century and more were a consequence of utopian ideologies that attempted to force themselves on the world. Consciousness cannot evolve this way. When I say 'our consciousness is evolving', I am not saying, 'or else the revolution will kill you'. Recognition of free will is a central tenet of the new paradigm. The revolutions of the past resulted in slaughter because they sought to replace one set of masters with another. The evolution we are now undergoing has no place for masters of any sort, for none can participate who wishes to be a master of anything but himself.
This is how I see it unfolding: those who 'get' the new paradigm will coalesce together and explore it, while leaving those who don't to experience further the consequences of the collapse of the old. It will get increasingly ugly in that regard. Hence the tipping point.
This is not to say there will not be blood. The sad, brutal truth is that the rule of the powers that be is sustained by blood, and as their power collapses they will undoubtedly lash out, increasingly paranoid and vicious, in a doomed effort to prop up their tired, corrupt order. That the minion class will be going insane as their world crumbles about them will add to the chaos. Mixed among this will be so-called 'revolutionaries' who in truth, belong every bit as much to the old paradigm as the psychopathic rulers they supposedly oppose.
Speaking again of psychopathy, if entities (I do not honor them with the title 'human') that: do not feel empathy; lie, cheat, and steal without even the possibility of remorse; are focused solely on their own self-aggrandizement and appetite gratification; and get off on the pain and suffering, both emotional and physical, of others ... are not evil ... than what is? Because I'm pretty sure I just defined it.
Your attitude is an implicit surrender to these beasts in human skin, an acceptance of the notion that THEY should be our masters. It is obvious that you misunderstand the dynamic here: they cannot be reasoned with, negotiated with, for there is no common ground. Our only desire is to go about our lives (I speak here of ordinary human beings, those who have the capacity for empathy, possess a conscience, and can be creative in directions other than the ways of manipulation, torture, theft and war); their only desire is to dominate and feed. Without us they cannot live; without them, we thrive. Are you starting to get this or do I need to be more explicit? The idea that we need masters is a lie, a trap laid by the intraspecies predator. The notion that they are reasonable, that they're just like us, that they can be negotiated with in any meaningful sense is another lie. No social contract they propose can be trusted because it is in their deepest nature to renege before the ink is even dry. It has always been thus.
It doesn't have to continue. Some of us have figured that out. And we're telling everyone we know, even as we put the new paradigm together - scientifically, spiritually, technologically, culturally, artistically, philosophically, and yes, politically - it is taking shape from the distributed efforts of hundreds of thousands of inspired individuals everywhere in the world, operating outside the boundaries of the control structure and within it, too ... permeating it like mycelia. Time was this all would have been coopted long before it had a chance to make any meaningful change, but what's different this time is the psychological awareness: we know it is not a system, not a culture, not an ideology, not a foreign enemy or any sort of outside threat ... we see the psychopaths for what they are, we've figured out their tricks, and we are setting out to tame those beasts as we've tamed every other.