If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.
William S. BurroughsTag: revolution transformation-of-the-individual
Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic society. In the process, they often exaggerate the power of big media in order to frighten readers into taking action. I don't disagree with their concern about media concentration, but the way they frame the debate is self-defeating insofar as it disempowers consumers even as it seeks to mobilize them. Far too much media reform rhetoric rests on melodramatic discourse about victimization and vulnerability, seduction and manipulation, "propaganda machines" and "weapons of mass deception". Again and again, this version of the media reform movement has ignored the complexity of the public's relationship to popular culture and sided with those opposed to a more diverse and participatory culture. The politics of critical utopianism is founded on a notion of empowerment; the politics of critical pessimism on a politics of victimization. One focuses on what we are doing with media, and the other on what media is doing to us. As with previous revolutions, the media reform movement is gaining momentum at a time when people are starting to feel more empowered, not when they are at their weakest.
Henry JenkinsTag: optimism empowerment revolution media-studies
Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papà Mabeuf] continuò dritto verso Enjolras che indietreggiava impietrito, gli strappò la bandiera, e senza che nessuno osasse trattenerlo né aiutarlo, quel vecchio ottuagenario col capo vacillante, ma col piede fermo, salì lentamente la scala di pietre costruita nella barricata. Lo spettacolo era così serio che tutto all'intorno dissero: «Giù il cappello!». A ogni gradino che saliva diventava sempre più terribile: i suoi capelli canuti, il volto decrepito, l'ampia fronte calma e rugosa, gli occhi incavati, la bocca attonita e semiaperta, il vecchio braccio che sosteneva la bandiera rossa, uscivano dall'ombra e ingigantivano nel sanguinoso chiarore della torcia, e sembrava di vedere lo spettro del 1793 sorgere dalla terra inalberando la bandiera del terrore.
Quando fu all'ultimo gradino, quando quel fantasma tremante e terribile, ritto su quel mucchio di rovine dinanzi a milleduecento fucili invisibili, si drizzò in faccia alla morte come se fosse più forte di essa, tutta la barricata assunse nelle tenebre un aspetto colossale e soprannaturale. Vi fu uno di quegli istanti di silenzio che accompagnano i prodigi. In mezzo a quel silenzio il vegliardo sventolò la bandiera rossa e gridò:
«Viva la Rivoluzione! Viva la Repubblica! Fratellanza! Uguaglianza! E morte!».
Tag: freedom death revolution fraternity
I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.
Hilary MantelTag: humour revolution
La historia es una increíble cantidad de manotazos por todos lados, algunos agarran la manija y otros se quedan con los dedos en el aire, pero cuando sumás el todo por ahí te da la revolución francesa o el Moncada.
Julio CortázarTag: history revolution historia french-revolution revolución revolución-francesa
No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: revolution
Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: revolution
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.
Catharine A. MacKinnonTag: feminism revolution violence rape resistance marxism trauma
ريقك بطعم العسل
إيه اللي قلبه مرار
كان نفسي أكون لك ولي
واطفي بإيدي النار
فستان زفافك دبل
ولا عاد فرح يرويه
Tag: poetry revolution egypt
Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.
Jaachynma N.E. AguTag: life money success reading greatness wealth inspiration security fame book self-help revolution elections aspiration leadership immortality president business relationship intimacy improvement accomplishments entrepreneurship forbes risk-it niche greater-glory successful-living higher-living the-best-option the-prince-and-the-pauper be-different jaachynma amazom richest african-american-authors african-authors agu-jaachynam-n-e anyaele-sam-chiyson chiysonovelty-bookclub international-authors it-is-time-to-get-very-rich nigerian-authors the-sagacity-of-sage
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