poor relative said...
Do we need one in australia?
Why?
What would it take to have a revolution?
What does revolution mean (not spinning or flea treatment)?
Question 1. Do we need a revolution in Australia.
Absolutely and definitively YES!!!
Question 2. Why?
A number of reasons.
1. We as a nation have been living off the sheep's back, the cow's milk, the wheat's ear and the ore's sale price for far too long.
2. We as a nation have become lazy (welfare oriented), undisciplined (juvenile crime is rampant), immoral (sexual and financial scandals of public figures are accepted or condoned) and egocentric (I'm alright Jack, f**k you.).
Nothing personal Poor Rel, but your avatar epitomises some of the above.
3. With the huge mineral resources, energy capabilities and arable land that this country OWNS, we have the power to influence the rest of the world towards better environmental solutions for the sustainable occupation of the planet by humans and the other existing species of creation.
4. This country has a "Brain Drain". The really smart people just leave because they will not put up with the mostly prevalent "hill billy thinking" here and the opportunities for a better life financially exist in other countries.
5. No doubt more. Someone else might like to fill in the blanks.
Question 3. What would it take to have a revolution?
In a word or two, an "idea" or an "ideal". I think all past revolutions have started from a thought.
Some would say "Guns and Guts". As we have been disarmed in Australia and Barak Obama is about to do it to the U.S., bypassing their constitution by way of a U.N. treaty, we will have to depend on "Guts".
Funnily enough, as recently seen in Tasmania, Britain, Holland, Iraq and some other places, the voters are causing somewhat of a revolution by not giving either of the two major political parties sufficient a majority to declare a mandate. Nice. Then we get ruled by the minority holding the balance of power. Who keeps them bast**ds honest.
Question 4. What does revolution mean?
That is the HARD question Rel. Dictionary? Philosophical? Historical?
Historically it seems most revolutions stem from oppression if not, at least dissatisfaction.
The cycle in the past has been along the lines of "oppression to insurrection to open revolt to victory to euphoria to temporary satisfaction to dissatisfaction to oppression to etc. etc. ad infinitum".
Too hard and too broad a question to give a definitive on that one rel.
Cheers Cisco.
