Why Revolution?

Look, we're in trouble. Global warming, overfishing, forests disappearing, GMOs, methamphetamines, nukes, McMansions and homelessness, undrinkable waters, wars without end, desertification, the same 10 songs on every Clearchannel station...in short, global suicide.

So who's gonna stop it? I hate to say it, but most of those with enough economic power to do something about the situation are a little to busy trying to find parking at Cosco, working their butt off to pay off the car and the overpriced mortgage, installing a new alarm system, and getting pissed at the people in the headlines. Politicians generally have other stuff to do, like kissing ass to other politicians. Corporations -- forget it! They'll give a get-off-my-back donation that seems pretty amazingly big next to what you and I could afford, but it's kinda small when you set it next to the damage they're doing to the planet.

Ok, so do we just do the lemming thing and shout "fuck it all!" while racing for the cliff? Or do we look for a way out?

I vote for the latter. But who's really gonna do it?

Well, lots and lots of people have major roles. Indigenous peoples, poor people, conscious people of all kinds, and, very importantly, people with ADD!

Think about it: our assembly-line society functions upon the compartmentalization of just about everything, and it's not working. Compartmentalization facilitates factory-like production, and lots of it, leading to loss of creativity and variation, high-speed resource burnout, and over-the-top waste. This assembly-line movement is fueled by a powerful "need and greed" cycle that cultivates and then compartmentalizes human fears and desires into units of energy. Undesirable -- but very real -- components of the system, such as war, nuclear waste, poverty, rainforest clearcutting, etc. are in themselves compartmentalized as "fringe" issues that have little real meaning for most of the people in this system, because they do not fall within the compartmentalized fear/greed matrix produced by the system for its own use, as do "high priority" -- but entirely society-constructed -- "need-greed" matters such as mortgages, car payments, stocks, fashion, board meetings, and insurance.

Well, not to say that those things aren't important, but times are looking a little scary on our little planet here. We can't eat insurance, so something's gotta change!

If society is a compartment train heading off a cliff, ADD people are the perfect ones to avert the disaster -- by breaking open those compartments and freeing the human beings inside.

Think about it -- the thing that makes ADD a "disorder" is essentially our inability to function within compartments. Specifically, we are unable to function properly in that famous, ever-more-rigid-and-assembly-line-like box known as a classroom. Attention deficit? Gimme a break. Everyone knows that if you set almost any ADD person in front of something (s)he's really interested in, (s)he'll focus so damn much attention on it that you won't be able to pry hir away with a crowbar four hours later! So who better to change the world?

The revolution starts now.

But first...where did I put those keys???