Monday, December 15, 2014

Revolution? No. Time.


So what is that force, the one that toppled the king of France, in 1789? It's the same one that toppled the kaisers, the tsars and the Habsburgs just a century ago. It's the same force that took away the smothering power of the catholic church over french-canadian society, that toppled segregation in the 1960s and saw students and activists take to the streets all over the World in that decade.

It's the same force that powers the wave of cyberactivism we see today.

Revolution? No. Time. But every time the clock goes tick-tock, it's a small revolution already.

So don't be like one of those reactionary people who said "not under my watch!" like Nixon in the 1970s, or Duplessis, or mayor Jones, or de Gaulle in 1968. Scream "Yes! Yes! Yes! In my time!"

Time asks for nobody's permission and yet, all that we have now, we owe it to time. We have it because the past changed.