The Problem of Modern Revolution

The Problem of Modern Revolution

As I stare out into the frozen tundra of Buffalo, being encompassed by this foul year of 2007, I think to myself and wonder what it is that I seek. I find that I only strive to exist in a society, a prefabricated fantasy where my desires as a human being are not thought of as wrong or incorrect. I wish only to be a part of a world where occasionally smoking marijuana or experimenting with other tabooed substances is not shunned as a waste or escape, but simply as a desire to learn from the effects that they have on the human mind. I only want to go to sleep and wake up somewhere where free thought and thinking outside the box of currently acceptable normalities is not only accepted, but encouraged; To become part of a time and place where revolutionary thought is not a threat to society, but rather a benefit of it; A catalyst for positive change, self exploration, and an expressway to discovering the true capabilities of the stifled human mind.
I see people, everyday, who simply chase after impossible dreams: The idea that anyone can get rich simply by being themselves. Individuals who are different from the rest of us, where in fact the rest of us are all different from one another to begin with. The very basis for the idea of individuality is to deviate from a norm that in the tangible world doesn’t truly exist. When everyone is different, there is no norm.
A world without the purely theoretical “norms” of society is the world that I seek. Wholly and with every breath of my body, this is where I want to go. I fear that the only hope we have as people to create such a world is to band together and fight for it, but that one central belief will simply create another intangible norm in and of itself. One person, on their own, cannot change the world, but in trying to change the world into a place where individuals are the central focus; Where each person is unique; Where every thought from one person to the next is sacred; And where every interpretation of such thoughts is correct; A norm of “free thinking” is thus created. Once again, we are lumped into a meaningless group of radicals and lunatics. We become an offshoot of some preexisting normality that in truth didn’t exist in the first place.
This is why the revolution of recent generations has gone nowhere, and why future revolutions must be waged more tactfully than ever before: We exist in a time where people of rebellion, free thinking, changing ideals, and worship of the values of an individual are subcategorized as radicals, lunatics, and terrorists, relative to the current states of our world. We cannot change the system because we have become a part of it.

K. Monnin

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