[MD] Shouldn’t we be, like, revolting ?

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
Truth with humor.

[Arlo]
The Age of Passion is over. Consumer and material complacency built 
atop a foundation of passivity have brought about the Age of Sheep. 
It will not be until all man's (forgive the sexist language) opiating 
institutions fail, when wandering on the streets with hunger in his 
belly, will man's passions be reawakened. It will be too late to save 
this world, but it will forge the next.

"Phaedrus wasn't sure but he seemed to detect a peculiar gentleness 
here on the streets now that he didn't remember from the past. It was 
an ominous gentleness found in old and corrupt cultures, the 
gentleness one hears in Neapolitan street songs and in old Mexican 
canciones. It comes not from an absence of violence but from an 
excess of it. Live and let live. Avoid trouble. It was the gentleness 
of someone who has given up fighting openly because it is too 
dangerous to do so. He had the sickening feeling that something like 
the fall of the Roman Empire was beginning to happen here." (LILA)

The unavoidability of this disintigration is described by Joseph 
Campbell in remarks about the Jain Buddhist cosmogonic cycle. "Our 
own age, the fifth of the descending series, began in 522 BC, and 
will last for twenty-one thousand years. No Jaina savior will be born 
during this time, and the eternal religion of the Jains will 
gradually disappear. It is a period of unmitigated and gradually 
intensifying evil. [People are] selfish, unjust, violent, lustful, 
proud and avaricious." (The Hero with 1000 Faces)

Birth, death, rebirth. Institutions must die. Nations must die. The 
old ways must die. Maps must be redrawn. From a website on the Hindu 
God Shiva. "[Shiva's] first and foremost task is to destroy many 
things in order to ensure the Rta or the order of the universe. 
Siva's destruction is not negative. It is a positive, nourishing and 
constructive destruction that builds and transforms life and energy 
for the welfare of the world and the beings that inhabit it. He 
destroys in order to renew and regenerate."

To revolt, one must ask, "what are we fighting for? what do we wish 
to preserve? what do we wish to destroy? what do we wish to create?" 
To answer these, one must know.