THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

[pasithea]

Preface: 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?

Comments

[paka.livejournal.com]

Actually, I feel like I missed the '40s. I empathize more with my grandparents' generation than my parents'. But you've got a good point here; I often wish I'd been around to fight the Germans and then, after returning home, been part of the white people who realized that American racial inequality was wrong and that we needed to do something about it. But then, would I have done all that? I don't know.

There's a lot of "just surviving" that people do. I'd like to think I've done some of what I should be working on. There's a lot that I haven't done, though, and maybe it's always that way?