You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, it won't really change the world.
You tell me that it's evolution? Well, you know, no one really wants to change the world.
Revolutions just don't cut it anymore.
After all, how can you change a society of which you are a product? More to the point, how do you challenge the concept of 'society' as a whole? Who amongst us can imagine a better world?
What we need is an invasion.
We need someone to rape and pillage our accepted perceptions and conventions; challenge our way of life - our very cognition.
The problem is, the world today isn't home to the six billion individual minds and lives that it should be; we're all living the same life, all living the same lie.
There isn't anyone left to challenge us, because the whole of human civilisation is encapsulated into this one version of thinking: this 'us'. Who can invade? There's no one left outside our perceptual boundaries.
It's gonna have to be an invasion of thought, or an invasion of nature.
I opt for the for former: a new generation of enlightened philosophers thinking outside the realms of the reality in which they have been cultivated. 'Tis an ideal, but it's doubtful. There have been few throughout history with minds clear enough to transcend the perception of the world to which they physically belong.
I fear, therefore, that it will be an invasion of nature. With no natural foes left, each of our enemy civilisations having been irrevocably sucked into the larger being of a global society, we will stand face-to-face with the most natural enemy of all, and the earth will exact revenge.
Perhaps it's for the best. This one version of reality has been dominant for too long by history's standards, it's time for change - the only problem is that this societal view of the world is so deeply entrenched into modern human nature that we're too scared to change; too scared to develop. We need to develop new understandings of the world; march bravely into new frontiers: philosophical, not physical, for what's the point of discovering new planets if we are yet to discover our true selves?
Perhaps the earth is the only one strong enough, the only one untainted by society and remaining natural enough, to force upon us this idea of 'change' which has been the propellant of history since the beginning of time.
Well, I don't know, really. But either way I'm not gonna stop trying. If the earth won't further the course of history, and 'society' is too scared to make change... well, then, someone has to.
Invasion, revolution, whatever? Don't you know that you can count me in.
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