Why Do the Weak Always Want to Lead the Revolution?
A couple months ago I went to the HFSestival here in Baltimore. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is just a huge concert with crappy bands in a big arena charging 6$ for a beer. Besides that, what these venues attract is the bottom of the revolution builders. The one's with the inability to touch anyone by any sort of influential medium and instead decided to press the flesh politician style.
What do they sell?
Well in this particular case and for this particular post they were asking for donations and giving away bumper stickers that said something to the effect of, "Stop bitching and start the revolution." Well now isn't that clever. Here they are, outside of the most commercialized event to hit the city in years handing out stickers that claim for the sugar watered babies to declare their allegiance towards a higher power. They want the people to think. They want the people to fight for something. What that something is, anyone could guess. It could be "save the squirrel day" or "Trees are our friends" or even "Down with GWB". Who cares. The point of this interaction was to persuade. Yes? So why then did I walk away? Why did one looking for the answer walk? Why did I walk away from these people in disgust and more importantly why did I decided to give them money for a CD that I am currently listening?
First off, this CD, oh boy, let me tell ya, nothing says revolution like whale Indian chanting with Tom Toms and some sort of Riche Havens Woodstock sing a long. The CD basically just talks about the undermining of life by higher powers. It speaks of apathy the same way Radiohead sings of indulgent laziness. It's not only depressing but frightening, melancholy, and boring.
Why is it the weak that want to revolutionize? This music is weak. Their ploy to get me to join or contribute was weak. There were no teeth in their actions. They acted like hobos begging for a little change to live in their imaginary dream "change the world" world. Basically, that is what I did by purchasing this cd. I gave them charity so that they could continue their pursuit of failure. They will fail and I will have detrimentally contributed not only to their extended failure but also to their extended daydream that may harm them when it is time to break from their pathetic dream.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to change the world but why is it always the pained and sickly? Why is it the artist that has little talent? Is it the sacrifice of the material security and losing that security, if you decide to dedicate yourself to something upstream, that scares the strong away from the revolution? The weak will inherent nothing, unless the strong decide to keep them as pets. And you may say that you are a revolutionary and that you want change. I seriously doubt any of you really do and if you did I would be willing to bet that you were weak as well.
It's always the diseased and beaten that want to change the world. It's never the mediocre well-to-do. It's always some college student that got treated wrong or treated like a God for some idea. They are the one's deflating the strong from wanting to join.
"You say 'strong' as if money or talent or family = strength. Well I don't agree." Please off a counter argument based on holistic elements and I'll gladly prove you to be a whore to your own imagination.
This is the CD I am listening to that came from these sad woodland creatures. I have no idea what their cause was but their message of "Stop Bitching and Start the Revolution" seemed to resonate somehow. Say you may be saying, "Why are you picking on these people if it resonated?" Well why the fuck not. What way do I have to keep in contact with them after my CD purchase and 5 minute lecture? Do I have a website? No. Do I have a mailer? No. And even those are just awful meaningless ways of getting people motivated. This makes me realize more and more that my 20$ went to allowing the weak become possibly weaker. They learned nothing from our encounter. I gave them no feedback and they offered me no outlet other than a CD with fucking chanting on it.
Does anyone have an example of a strong revolution being waged? Does anyone know of anything that a budding revolutionary might want to take pride in? Is their an organization out there with the balls and the muscle to fight head on instead of handing out bumper stickers and cds in a parking lot full of drunken idiots? Is the idea of a revolution supposed to be the weak against the strong? And most importantly do we as Americans or as exploited and raped humans really consider ourselves weak? Do we have no power besides running around and cowering in the street looking for the scraps falling off the table?
