Revolution, what can you say.

The norm is revolution.

Since the fifties.

And revolution opposes the norm.

So revolution opposes itself.

That's the paradox choking modern art.

Ever since moden art was equated with revolution.

Say a hundred and fifty years.

After a hundred fifty thousand years.

There are other equations.

Stasis is change, is one.

But no one knows what either is.

Better to think about revolution and stability.

These extend for about 5 years each, now. Everybody senses that.

Funny how the period is the same.

This period is called attention span.

There is a world attention span.

It's 5 years now.

More people have access to sugar than ever before.

Even poor people.

Political revolutions are another thing.

It's not all art and electronics.

Or, maybe it is.

Political revolutions result in lots of people getting hurt, or even getting killed.

Then there is a new government.

All governments can lead to revolutions.

Almost every government is as old as the last revolution.

And the government before is as old as the next last one.

Or conquest.

Which is an externally imposed revolution.

Mostly, revolutions occur because people are getting hurt, or even killed. Or they're starving.

And they think they know the cause.

Which is other people's selfishness.

Not their own.

They can identify who it is.

So a plan is formulated. And ideas come into play.

Equations are drawn up. New axioms are made axiomatic.

Especially anti-axiomatic ones.

Revolutionary ideas.

These form the basis for the killings.

There is always the hope that the new ideas will work out.

And enough people with the old ideas will get killed not to bring back the old axioms.

The problem is, the new ones.

Nothing has worked so far.

But people want to do something.

We keep trying. Stick to it ivness,

After all.

The fault is everywhere around, and unhappiness, and death, too.

Something has to be done. And killing is the most active action we know of.

There's lots of activity in it. That's obvious.

Killing is doing.

You couldn't ask for a stronger example of action than killing someone.

They even call it an action.

Like a police action.

And action movies.

Inactivity encourages war, that's for sure.

Times are tough.

The world is changing.

And other stuff like that.

Maybe it's impossible to get rid of axioms.

Lop one off and the axe in your hand is a new one.

Can we escape our ideas?

There was a movie called The Red Planet.

About a martian world that accidentally assasinated itself by making its axioms real.

In the movie, in the fifties it was the id, they thought, the anti-axiom of the propriety axiom.

Raging and chaotic.

That did them in.

But we know what it was, now.

Just another cognitive solution carried out.

Which it turned out to be, when you think about it.

Things were uniform afterwards.

No problems.

The dead red planet.

All the bastards gone.

Other people's selfishness.

Brie on melba.

 

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