As much as I root for an American Revolution, I don’t think it’s going to happen, and Shahid Bolsen does a good job explaining why:
In short, Americans lack imagination. To quote Shahid Bolsen: “America’s entire society is engineered for distraction. People who can’t think for themselves…are never going to revolt.”
This video is worth a listen.
If you don’t believe me, just read how his conversation ends:
“You’ve been trained to escape, not to endure. You’ve been programmed to be serfs. That’s what you were and that’s what you are: serfs and slaves. Only now, escape doesn’t actually mean escaping the plantation or the manor or the tenant land. It means just forgetting where you are and what you are. Escape means distraction. It means not even knowing the words to understand that you are a serf or a slave. It means that the songs you sing, the stories you tell, and even the dissent or the opposition that you express are all actually just methods of reinforcing your subject status.
And in America, even the dream of liberation isn’t really about liberation. The culture and the system created by the culture, and the art created by the culture, have made the dream not about liberation from oppression but a dream about becoming the oppressor. That’s the American dream. It’s a cruel society; it’s a cruel system because it’s a cruel culture. So, like I say, you want short-term symptom treatment, not long-term cure of the disease, because the only kind of revolution that you really need in America is a cultural revolution. America doesn’t need cosmetic surgery; it needs brain surgery. It needs heart surgery. You don’t need a pacemaker; you need a transplant. And unless and until you actually change your culture, the only way that you’ll change your system is by changing it to become worse.”
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Krista Marson 