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> charity will never bring revolution and even worse charity will actively suppress revolution. ... > Revolution used to mean pitchforks and guillotines (the
by Eisenstein 4y ago
> charity will never bring revolution and even worse charity will actively suppress revolution.
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> Revolution used to mean pitchforks and guillotines (the French especially loved them), but today, funnily enough, that would be ineffective even if the people would be able to close their favorite streaming channel and wake up.
This strikes me as a strange way to say 'people are too happy to lead a violent revolt'.
> We could probably try today this idea, but (i) there is no coagulated we to make it work after at least 158 years of divisiveness and
What was before those 158 years? Unity? Until we get rid of nationalism, racism and religion divisiveness is going to be the rule, not the exception.
> A revolution today would take completely other form from the past.
Because the French revolution with guillotines was the same as the ones before it?
> we can learn to programatically interface with the cells and just say, top-down, "you, the cells, already know how to build an eye, you did it once, rebuild one here", don't scar, regenerate [1]. 1,000 year lifespan is achievable with 100% organ, tissue regeneration, and then the revolution begins, hopefully.
What? This could be on a sandwich board worn by the guy who in 2013 had to remove those Apocalypse 2012 stickers from his blacked out panel van.
What strange, hollow rhetoric that post is.
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y ago158 years ago was the First International [1]. More of a tongue-in-cheek joke. Watch the video I linked in order not to put your ignorance in front of you and don't cower behind the guise of rationality to expunge heterodoxical worldviews. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workingmen%27s_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workingmen%27s_A...
- Eisenstein 4y agoDo you write like that on purpose or does it come naturally? It isn't a style conducive to clear communication.
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y agoJust wanted a zinger in as few words as possible, rhetoric got the best of me, sorry.