Comments for Americans Unready to Revolt, Despite Revolting Conditions at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:23:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/1798-americans-unready-to-revolt-despite-revolting-conditions.html#comment-3627 the good people always talk about revolution, they say that America is run by corrupt politicians and the environment is being terrorized, education is lacking and wallmart is ruining the world. but this is not a revolution, a revolution neccecitates more than talk, it involves risky actions that are totally devoted to a goal that seems unattainable. Once people become fanatical and stop compromising their revolution because thet get happy when they go to the 99 cent menu at mcdonalds and dont have to cook, or clean, or farm. they can get past the illusionary wall of security that the upper class has maintained because although, "they've got the guns, we've got the numbers". - max davis Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:46:36 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/1798-americans-unready-to-revolt-despite-revolting-conditions.html#comment-3124 I'd like to point out the subtle difference between a failed revolt and a successful one: understanding of the forces needed to change in order to give rise to the results the revolter desires to change. The greatest, most successful cultural revolution in history, for example, was instigated by a fanatic Zealot extremist struggling against a repressive imperial regime. Christianity, of course - which unfortunately was left in the hands of power drunkards. A successful cultural revolution in modern times would require planning [i]beyond[/i] simple nation-state imperialism, however - one would have to find a way to attack the supernational corporate power structures, which rest upon an entirely different set of concepts and cultural forces. Understanding, however - seeing past the immediate - understanding affords a weapon power drunkards are forever denied. - a guest Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:52:50 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/1798-americans-unready-to-revolt-despite-revolting-conditions.html#comment-2381 The folks in power have the guns and the money - a lot more than the rest of us. A revolution would be suicide. - a guest Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:55:27 +0100