The Lie of Revolution
Rebellion, riot, insurrection, uprising, mutiny, overthrow, change, insurgency, these are all the words that are conjured to the mind when we think of the word revolution. But is that truly the only inevitable outcome? I’m going to try and persuade you in this blog, that this is not the case, that revolution is not a dirty word, that it belongs to every single one of you. Through time immemorial peoples freedoms and liberties have been impinged, their rights disregarded, and their lives taken.
lets look at a famous historical example i.e. the French Revolution of 1789-99.
I know what you’re thinking “That couldn’t possibly apply to us, right?” Well let’s draw some amusing comparisons shall we folks. Firstly, Frances economy was in tatters due to a titanic amount of debt and the total incompetence of the current King Louis XVI. Although obviously a monarchy isn’t voted into office, by a representative government, that's okay because neither was ours, they elected themselves into office, much like our glorious coalition. France endured crippling levels of inflation; shortages of food and a poor transportation system that all contributed to an enraged, albeit starving populace, while the ruling bourgeoisie were completely indifferent to the sufferings of its subjects. In our allegedly civilized
times we have unprecedented multitudes of families falling into abject
poverty, a social welfare system that increasingly targets the most vulnerable within our society. Spiraling inflation, combined with abysmal job prospects, all amalgamate into a beautiful comparison to revolutionary France.
So what’s different? We share the same egalitarian ideals of freedom, liberty and justice and even the idea’s of private property. Despite being imbued with the same resentment towards our corrupt oligarchical dictators, we do nothing. Now I’m not exempting myself from this uncomfortable truth, if were honest with ourselves were all guilty of it. Regardless, we all feel betrayed, lost, forgotten even; a profound powerlessness over not being able to instigate any real change. were lumbered with a twisted, broken, political process that provides our ‘choices’ completely pre-selected, from a list of non desirable, over privileged, self serving, butt munchers. Whose lack of empathy is rivaled only by their complete indifference to the proletariat retainers serving beneath them.
We live in a world in which conventional forms of protest go all but unnoticed by the political ruling elite, our voices go unheard, our whispers of discontent and vexation go unanswered. We remain disjointed, fractured, utterly powerless to change our fate. So why knowing all this do we hesitate? Are content to suffer these heinous evils in the hope that they will one day pass, or happen to someone else. We are paralysed with fear; fear of losing what little we have left. Instructed through their scaremongering
that any form of resistance will only lead to anarchy and chaos,
fortunately individuals are beginning to speak out against this mass
hallucination. One of which we are all duty bond to be vigilant against.
I would assert that revolution does not have to be violent, that this is the great deception of our age and one we must endeavor, with all of our vehement vigor to change, if we are to have any hope of making a difference, to compel them to hear our voice. The ruling elite would have you believe that what little you have left, you would lose, and that death, destruction and anarchy would assuredly follow. We merely must decide as a politically conscious organic entity, that our current system no longer works, democracy has failed. The burden of developing a new system is not to be bared by any one person. We need only decide, organically, as a collective that enough is enough, there will be no riot, no protest, merely a singular voice declaring a statement.
"When life gives you lemons, fuck the lemons and bail!"
