Revolution and Reaction

human society seems to always have been driven by two forces, those of revolution and reaction. those who set out to change it, and those that tried to keep everything at it is. this is already a quite massive concept; yet i think it goes even farther, even deeper than that. it would be wrong, in my opinion, to just say that those of the reaction just want to "keep things", and also not those of the revolution to "change things"; just not progress and stillstand. there is something more. this is where the focus of the revolution lies.
most people's life, theyir whole life, resolves around things they know, and those are direct, tangible, obvious. their job, their home, their boss, their goverment and so on. things they know, that they can see, "touch", at least theorethically. that's the life they know, how it has always been. now, the revolutionary has something different. he set's out to change this; but this is not his main motor. the important thing is what he focuses on. and these are, ideals, ideas, theories, concepts, thoughts, vision, imagination, creativity, dreams. he has an idea, like justice, like freedom, like equality, like creativity. and this is where the reactionary and the revolutionary part. because this idea is not part of the tangible, familiar world that the reactionary knows. it does not lie in his job, his city, his government, his authorities, as he knows it. as it is an idea, not something tangible, not something you can see face to face, that you can encounter. and this is what scares reactionaries so deeply, and makes them more afraid as if their whole country would light up in flames, or if they would be chased in a forest by a thousand wolves. that there are ideas, ideals, concepts that are not just "tangible" - that are ideal, utopian, different, pure, honest. because the existance of this gives them a deep fear. for them, what is tangible, direct, is what is "holy" to them, so to say. the goverment - as it is. the family - as it is. the nation - as it is. that an utopian nation, a utopian society, a utopican community could exist, that is based not on "what is", but on ideas, theories, is something they can not take. because this means there is more than to what they know - not what they encounter every idea, but what goes beyond this - ideals, utopian thoughts, dreams.
the revolutionary, on the other hand, doesn't care about what is tangible. how "things are", and about which is said they they "always been this way and always will be". he cares about dreams and visions.
and he rightly does so. because what is ideal, in ideas, is much much important, much more pure and impressive than the world "as it is".
thus, the revolutionary and the reactionary can never meet, and thus society will swing each centuries between these focal points; until one day, maybe, utopian revolution will win over.