Can we convince the tired and manipulated crowds that we are not only ready to undermine the existing order, to engage in provocative acts of resistance, but also to offer the prospect of a new order?
In the 9th century fiefs were not yet numerous enough to undermine the public order protected by kings and their delegates.
Festivals like Saturnalia appeared to undermine the social order, but paradoxically helped to reaffirm it, by allowing people to act out their frustrations in a harmless way.
Even its definitions conspired to undermine the established order: "One is bound to one's wife but attached to one's mistress".
"When it had to come up with a Scottish parliament it didn't recognise that would undermine the very order that its dominance was based on, and failed to use it to develop a positive Labour agenda in Scotland.
In 1968 Tupamaro began more-aggressive efforts to undermine the established order, including raids on arsenals, arson, political kidnappings (with those taken held in a secret "People's Prison"), and assassinations of a number of police officers and some others.
A squabble outside the Central Hospital between fighters from Zintan and Misrata left one dead.But such skirmishes will not undermine the new order, says Bashir al-Sweie, a commander based in a government-owned arboretum, who would like to return to business once the security forces are in place.
One of his bosses at the newspaper kept a baroque chart of the Tales' dozens of characters on his office wall – an effort to ensure, as Maupin drolly noted, "that the homo characters didn't suddenly outnumber the hetero ones and thereby undermine the natural order of civilisation".
John Locke in contrast, though an advocate of tolerance, urged authorities not to tolerate atheism, believing that the denial of God's existence would undermine the social order and lead to chaos.
This seemingly innocuous art form was, and still is by some, seen as a potentially corrupting influence that could undermine the social order, and of course, diminish the power of the state or religion over the individual and society.
