Revolution

Sooner or later, each individual undergoes a revolution where the past is torn away and all is future. Societies also undergo revolution. The more uncertain the times, the more intense the revolution. Each society gets the revolution it deserves, for it has prepared the way by constructing the symbolic story of the contest it faces: us versus them, good versus evil, science versus religion, etc. Germany after World War I needed a revolution...badly. It got a failed revolution in 1918, and it got its Bad revolution finally in 1933, when the Nazis took power. The USA, deeply divided and in conflict during the 1920's ( Labor versus Business ) and the 1930's got its revolution in World War II, where sufficient blood was spilled to slake History's thirst. As conflict and tension increase in a society, the probability that blood will be spilled increases. Whether the revolution or war is seen as good or evil depends on how the society has prepared itself: the American Revolution versus the Nazi Revolution, is a good example of preparing oneself in honor and knowledge versus preparing oneself in hate and ignorance. We shall always kill each other until we realize that it is we ourselves, the story makers and storytellers, who create the killing fields in our imaginations long before we pick up our guns; we plough the field with the blade of discord and we sow the seed of inequity and fertilize with hatred...the whirlwind waits the harvest. At present, the tension is nothing compared to what it will be within the next 4 years. We shall get the revolution we deserve. Whether the turning of history topsy-turvy will be good or evil is unknown; what is clear is that there will be bloodshed; we are still primitive and bestial. It is not 2012 we need fear. (It is 2 years after that.)