{"id":2291,"date":"2010-05-08T11:12:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T11:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2010\/05\/the-main-object-of-a-revolution-2\/"},"modified":"2010-05-08T11:21:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T11:21:16","slug":"the-main-object-of-a-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2010\/05\/the-main-object-of-a-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Main Object of a Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><CENTER><strong>&#8220;The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man&#8230; not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.&#8221; &#8211; Jean Genet.<\/strong><\/CENTER><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nI took this photo in September 2007:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deekster\/1397422122\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1203\/1397422122_ea193e601c.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two and a half years of financial crisis later&#8230; the UK election produces a &#8220;hung&#8221; parliament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/election-2010\/7693270\/General-Election-2010-David-Cameron-will-surprise-many-with-his-courage-as-Prime-Minister.html\">I read this measured, optimistic article<\/a> by the media-friendly ex-Conservative minister Michael Portillo, whom I disliked in government, but have grown to enjoy on television. He speaks a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p>Then I read the comments&#8230; my personal favourite being the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt looks like we are going to have a Tory government now.I am going to love it, really love it!<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be more than six months before you Tory voting twats are squealing because you have lost your jobs and your homes.<\/p>\n<p>You must be complete masochists. Your decision to vote Tory will have one consequence:<\/p>\n<p>You will endure extreme financial pain on behalf of those a million times wealthier than yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s absolutely unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>Lib Dem supporters will be even more incredulous as their decision props up the finances of bankers, professional footballers and pop stars.<\/p>\n<p>Labour is the party of the people.<\/p>\n<p>The deficit could have been written off instantly.<\/p>\n<p>The combined wealth of the richest 1000 Brits is three times the value of the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>In voting Tory and Lib Dem you have said it is wrong to reduce the wealth of these people from multi billionaires to billionares.<\/p>\n<p>You total SUCKERS!<\/p>\n<p>This election results will simply be nice little field trip for the public school boys.<\/p>\n<p>You total fools!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, people are fools, all of us. Some of us all the time, all of us some of the time. Some people even think time is linear.<\/p>\n<p>I could waste a lot of time with politics. I don&#8217;t like it, in general, though I understand it is necessary. It brings out irrational smugness and preening tribalism in people, and leads to death and disaster, which whilst it is a great series of screenprints by Warhol, is not the kind of way I wish to spend the remaining 39% of my life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deekster\/1256192194\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1413\/1256192194_99cc374df8.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is where I want to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man&#8230; not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.&#8221; &#8211; Jean Genet. I took this photo in September 2007: Two and a half years of financial crisis later&#8230; the UK election produces a &#8220;hung&#8221; parliament. 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