What Makes the Trigger a Trigger?

There needs to be a cross-class alliance for it to count as a revolution, he says. The trigger locks into place what is effectively a whole shadow society featuring everyone from wealthy elites to middle class professionals and intellectuals. All of them are now linked by a new set of binding ties often defined by all those new ideas that we talked about which are now floating around out there. This shadow society is going to try to displace the old society.