“You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
You cannot vote-in the Revolution. You cannot plead with an authority to allow you to have a Revolution. At that point, you’ve already failed. As Larken Rose said, “To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.” And a slave can never be the Revolution. Neither can a soft-slave be the Revolution (See: The Psychology of Soft Slavery).
Here’s the thing: Everyone wants to change the world for the better, but not everyone wants to change. Change is inevitable, but change is also extremely difficult; and unexpected change even more so. The only thing more difficult than navigating through external change is navigating through internal change, especially when they clash. Which they tend to do.
When it comes to navigating through cultural and political change, there is a level of cognitive dissonance that comes into play that amps the difficulty to near impossible proportions. The cart of political culture is so set in front of the horse of our progressive growth that it seems entrenched. Our ability to progressively evolve becomes blocked by the comfort and security infrastructures we have erected. So what can we do?
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Strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom must be thwarted. This requires courageous bottom-up leaders to throw a wrench into the machinery of the chain of command from time to time.
