The hard part of a revolution is not the overthrowing. Any idiot can do that. It’s what happens when you win and you suddenly realize you have a country to run. For our next revolution, we really should put an introvert in charge. The extraverts have been in charge of the last dozen or so, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘revolution’
Undoing modernity
As mentioned here several times, the founding illusion of modernity occurred in 1789 when people decided that they could do without specialized leaders. Instead, it was declared that we are all equal. This means that we pick leaders from among us by voting. 222 years on, it seems this has not worked out so well. [...]
Lessons from the Arab spring
We talk a lot, during revolutions, about the power of the people. In my view, the people compare to muscles. If coordinated, they work together and make change in the world; if this coordination is not backed by a clear and realistic goal, the muscles wreak havoc like a flailing limb. During the Arab spring [...]
Paranoia
For all of our “enlightenment,” scientific learning and vast statistical knowledge, we also suffer intense paranoia in this modern time. Paranoia occurs when you fear a threat but don’t know where it will come from. Our news media, politicians and even friends in conversation treat all misfortunes as if they sprouted out of the ground. [...]
Life support for indolence
Here comes another major split between a responsible, productive demographic against an irresponsible collective seeking to distribute the impact of their own inconsideration and misfortunes. This is also another method of forcing equality by taking from the positives and redistributing to the negatives until the mutual dormancy of an orchestrated zero potential for everyone involved [...]
The revolution never dies
Christ popularized the concept that every person is included because they are each very special, yet oddly by denying all material world standards, the same. Through me, he said, whoever you are, you may be saved. Many centuries later, we came to realize we could apply this miracle to ourselves. Enlightenment The seeds are sown [...]
Moral judgment blinds us
Among the many ways to look at the world, one of the most popular is moral judgment. Moral judgments are the shoulds, oughts and shouldn’t’ves of the world. When a situation happens, we decide according to some ideal what “should” have happened, and penalize people for what did. But that’s neurotic, since they did do [...]
