Revolution Is In The Air

revolution is in the air... again... finally.
there were some dark years, after the damned early 2000 years, when political, societal, cultural uprising, revolution, change seemed to be defeated, seemed to be futile. people where not only not interested in revolution anymore; you were laughed at if you still talked and fought for it; not even seen as their "enemy", but rather as a child who doesn't understand the basic fact that the status quo and the system will always be in this way, seemingly live on forever.
as i addressed in other texts, formularly "revolutionary" artists - or rather artists who had abused revolutionary rhetoric for their own ends, quickly jettisoned their revolutionary ideas and found their peace with pop culture, conservativism, the political system and market society. this was enhanced by the idea that now in a society driven mostly by computer technology, revolutionary struggle would just be an idea of the past.
okay so these were the dark years. nearly 10 dark, bleak years where it seemed humanity - at least in the western world - had finally lost it and we were stuck with a society that either bored us to death or directly killed us forever.
but in the last years, starting somewhen around 2007 for me, and especially after 2010, i noticed that things were about to change again. it was immediately clear to me that revolution was finally back. anarchism was back. social struggle was back. after 2013 it totally came out in the open for me. obviously this tendency had ran for a longer time already, and probably never had totally gone away, but i hadn't noticed it before. suddenly, it became visible that there was an interest in political ideas. in social struggle. people read about anarchism again and about anarchist authors. the interest in these things seems to strengthen everymonth, basically. it is something that is talked about again, that people are willing to dedicate themselves to again. of course, not yet, the large masses. but a large number of people, at least.
these are great and wonderful news. revolution is in the air again. you might see it too again, soon. or if it doesnt become visible - at leats it's there, it's happening, and it's growing.
great times lie ahead. adventures, exciting, wonderful times.