THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
Oct. 22nd, 2008 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaPreface: This post is really questioning myself using an external voice. All use of the word 'you' should be interpreted as being about the writer, not the audience.
You've always moped and been sad that you missed the 60s. That far off fantasy time of great cultural change. And yet, you know that like the magical heterosexual 50s, they didn't really exist. It's a myth. Hippies were a subculture. Most of america was exactly as it is now. A bunch of miserable people who hate pretty-much everything that's different from them.
So.. Look around you right now. Burning Man, Free Hugs, and great stands against racism, homophobia, and the rape of our planet. Perhaps you're missing the revolution. Look at everything that's going on in the world today. How can you be involved? How can you be a part of it? How can you join the revolution and make change happen? The world is largely what you make it, and you live in a time and place where great cultural change is within your grasp if you're willing to reach out and be a part of it. Make the world a better place. You have the power. Everyone does. A million tiny changes add up.
So... Now back to the audience: What can I do to make the world a happier, nicer, more beautiful place? How about you?
You've always moped and been sad that you missed the 60s. That far off fantasy time of great cultural change. And yet, you know that like the magical heterosexual 50s, they didn't really exist. It's a myth. Hippies were a subculture. Most of america was exactly as it is now. A bunch of miserable people who hate pretty-much everything that's different from them.
So.. Look around you right now. Burning Man, Free Hugs, and great stands against racism, homophobia, and the rape of our planet. Perhaps you're missing the revolution. Look at everything that's going on in the world today. How can you be involved? How can you be a part of it? How can you join the revolution and make change happen? The world is largely what you make it, and you live in a time and place where great cultural change is within your grasp if you're willing to reach out and be a part of it. Make the world a better place. You have the power. Everyone does. A million tiny changes add up.
So... Now back to the audience: What can I do to make the world a happier, nicer, more beautiful place? How about you?
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Date: 2008-10-22 10:47 pm (UTC)Oh and you and the geeks you know could form a collective to study privacy invasion technologies and anti-demo weapons (like that sonic shit they're gonna break out if Obama wins) and design and construct combatant technologies.
I've always said I'd like to put together a collective of folks with different skills to fight the evil shit the gubmint spends all the DARPA money on to oppress us. Kinda like La Femme Nikita :-)