Are You Ready for the Revolution? (Mickey Z.)

[Tace]

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Jan. 2, 2010 -- For a while in 2001-2, I worked the night shift at a midtown Manhattan corporate gym (cue the shame and self-loathing) at which I met several interesting characters.

One evening, for example, I was wearing a Yankees t-shirt with the name "Justice" emblazoned on the back (for former Yank David Justice), when a woman named Mary -- perhaps in her late 60s -- asked me if I were a Yankee fan. I told her I was... but my real reason for wearing the shirt was all about the word "justice." She smiled and declared that justice was a "noble idea."

This was shortly after 9/11, so I braced myself for the inevitable "we need to show those towel heads some justice." Instead, Mary told me -- albeit in a very low voice -- she was going to Washington soon to march against the impending invasion of Iraq.

After this confession, Mary looked genuinely nervous. Had she gone too far in the alleged land of the free? I just smiled and said in my best underground resistance voice: "Don't worry, I'm with you."

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[tama]

1. Revolution, what do you mean?

Just another orgy of fear, hate and violence somewhere in future? Some class or group of people and ideas taking power from other group? Same'o same'o, haven't we learned anything?

Don't be ready, be revolution, NOW, each moment. The only revolution you really need and can achieve is the one in yourself.

Fear (and hate) is just something we project into future. Sure as hell it can be and often is a self-fulfilling prophecy. But this I know in my every cell, being revolution myself: we have the power to face our fears and transform them into love. There is nothing to fear but fear itself. Fear comes from love that is attached to the object of love and is afraid of losing that object. Then fear gets expressed as anxiety, hate, etc. It' really that simple and the revolution that is you and me and our power of transformation means simply understanding that fear and sorrow and hate are just expressions of love, love that objectifies and gets attached to the object. Yup, love is all there is. And the revolution in each moment of our lives means just remembering that love is all there is. :)

[Cirque du So-What]

2. From the piece:

As Ralph Nader sez:

"Once we stop growing up corporate and grow up civic, we will be much more focused on nutritious food, rather than junk food; we will be much more inquiring about different kinds of products; we will look at pollution as a form of violence, not just something that is nasty and dirty; we will demand the mechanism so we can control what we own and use these great resources for an enlightened, just, prosperous, happy society where the pursuit of justice is filled with such joy it itself becomes the pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of happiness becomes the pursuit of justice."

Although some will reflexively whirl around in a circle and spit on the ground at the mere mention of Ralph Nader's name, he speaks with wisdom to me as a progressive and liberal. I'm still trying to forgive his quixotic presidential bids (especially 2000) but I'm not one to throw out the baby with the bath water where his ideas are concerned.

[Demeter]

3. I'm not ready, but I AM Longing for It!

How can one get ready for change, anyway? When all avenues for peaceful change have been blocked...

[whattheidonot]

4. coming but when

The revolution is coming. When is the question. There will be other bail outs. How much will the people take before they storm the banks. Unemployment will remain high , wages will not rise, and services will be cut while the rich go merrily along. People will start to fill the effects of all this printed money. It is going to come down on them. At that point there should be some serious movement to revolt. Why not at a point like that. With serious unemployment and other bailouts not affecting the employment situation the time will come. It is going to hit home what has happened. So far the printing of money has hidden it. Obama just made a terrible decision on the tax question and he is very likely toast. trying to solve a problem with the the problem is insanity. Do not support any candidate who takes donations from Big Banks.