Some Thoughts on Revolution

Revolution arises when a particular class of peoples, or cultures, reaches the point of enslavement, oppression and depression, that it fights to annihilate those oppressing and attempt to abolish any remnants of a culturally divided society. This is a social revolution. Political revolution is intertwined as well, to give a voice to the otherwise muffled mass. What is need here in the U.S. is a cultural revolution. For too long now our pop culture has weakened the spirit of the American people by subjecting them to mindless and mind-numbing television, internet and music, all contributing to a dissected mind and unfocused thinking. No longer do Americans feel the need to do much because so much is already done for them. Why study history when you need to pay bills and when the stress of everyday working life allows for only weekend picnics and prime time television? Why write passionately of our wants and hopes, or about morals and ethics, about the need for change, when www.justsitonyourasscuzweprovideeverythingyouneed.com exists? Why make music when Apple furnishes us with a gig of memory to listen to other peoples' songs? And what could possibly be the reason for us to travel in the Outback or Amazon or South Pacific, when "everyday" people are doing it for you on CBS? The reason is simple. As our political hold slips in the world our culture will be all that we have. Just as the early American Republic was founded on revolution and the search for better representation as humans and a nation, so must we fight again to achieve that status.

The economy and money-making should not make the American. Politics does not represent the people, even though our ignoramus of a leader projects a most damaging image of our citizens. It is the people that make up this culture. Black and White. Mexican and Native Americans. Asian and Euro immigrants. Are we to stand by while, not only our political, but cultural position turns sour and misrepresents who we Americans really are? Parents, educate yourselves each day so that your children grow into worthy citizens who are AWARE. Too many families are based on those individuals searching for their place, too afraid to educate themselves on a human conscious level, and as a result, procreation becomes their validation; their reason for being here, if you will. What happens is a cultural circle that revolves around itself, egoistic and selfish in nature. If parents do not take chances by travelling the world or even just questioning their surroundings, what, pray I ask, is the percentage their children will?

Revolution starts by grasping the root, but perhaps we must not, first, plant the seed until all aspects of photosynthesis are understood. If not, a fecund-less, synthetic society will continue to exist, and that prolific America idealised by Franklin and Paine will never again be realised.