B - The Facilitating Elements

These elements include those, which enable people to better comprehend and critique the existing conditions in their society. For instance, a gradual opening in the political atmosphere, or the common experience of a weak economy can cause, among other things, the majority of the people better understand the prevailing realities of their society.Also, increasing knowledge of conditions in other societies helped immensely by recent communications advances together with deeper and more widespread knowledge and understanding of a society's national identity by the people, and the weakness of forces protecting the ruling system, are among other factors which facilitate this process.