The Fire.
Do you know how fire works?
When you brush oxygen molecules with carbon molecules in a gentle manner, they will resist each other. Richard Feyman describes it as a volcano. Imagine carbon the volcano and oxygen the ball that travels up that steep hill. Sometimes it slides back but that one time, that one time an oxygen manages to cling to a carbon we get fire. A living, breathing, yearning force.
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Four years ago the crazies gathered in front of the steps of Congress for a revolution march built around the liberty elf Ron Paul. They emphasized love aspect in the revolution. Because you can’t sell a revolution with gore. The event was organized by some random joe that later spent donation money on a blimp ad, billed as a march down the chocolate city to change popular opinion, to change policy, to change the country.
Only the crazies showed up.
The ones that really believed they could change the world. The ones that really believed they want to accomplish something. And the ones that believed they accomplished. The ones that know the future and the ones that hawk prescriptions with a price.
But they showed up.
And they’ve kept showing up. Under different banners, at different times, and at different places. But what you can’t be sure of is whether a legitimate government cares the will of its people. But how could you?
What’s happening now in our eleventh year of the new millenium is entering into anness folles, or the Crazy Years. The last time this happened was Boardwalk Empire. Something is changing whereby everyone has a decision to make: do you see something wrong?
Some people won’t ever see the fire that’s burning around us, but there are those that do. And those people have been pushed too far. Over the past month we’ve seen the emotional response of disenfrenchisees in New York. That’s why those that only see logic and order don’t understand what Occupy Wall Street’s goals are and why those that see the fires reply back that’s not point.
Real world is maturing. Cyberspace is growing up. A whole generation of kids are now growing up with Facebook as their entire identity online. Behind them are a generation of kids that have apps and kids that have parents don’t even understand what an app is. Living in a world that will soon trust a Facebook profile over a government issued identification. But this has always been what’s happening, these fires that burn reliably over the years. Fed by aspirations, dreams, effort, and smothered by apathy.
Do you see the world burning around you?
It’s always bene this way. You’re just now finally seeing it.
