For some reason I was born the opposite of a revolutionary – whatever that should be called. One reason is undoubtedly that I am a coward; another, perhaps, that I hate violence. Third, the suspicion can never leave me that for revolutionaries – like for many of today's eco-warriors – it's usually all about themselves.
Novalis had this to say about revolutions (which were quite popular when he was living in the late nineteenth century):
"Revolutions are evidence more against than for the real energy of a nation. There is a kind of energy stemming from sickness and weakness – that has a more violent effect than the real kind – but which unfortunately ends in even more profound weakness."
7 comments:
"the opposite of a revolutionary" - does that make you a counter-revolutionary? Or are you also the opposite of a counter-revolutionary?
It does get a bit confusing. I think I'd settle for "non-revolutionary".
Comedy may have done its bit too - remember Citizen Smith?
Like the Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Brothers, Citizen Smith was something that passed me by, Essers.
Let's face it, Ullie. You're a bourgeois male oppressor.
Anyone who's really opposed to violence has to be some sort of revolutionary, because almost all existing political systems are founded on it. Falsely equating revolution with violence and the status quo with peace is one of the ways those systems maintain themselves.
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