Comment on Revolution will never happens unless people go hungry. by user1999

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user1999 · 4/18/2025, 2:39:56 AM · permalink

From Mr. Bolson's own words;  
  
"This is the state of modern society in the West. In America, people don't really want justice—they want relief. They don't seek truth—they seek comfort. They don't desire real change—they want convenience. And as a result, they remain in a cycle. Protests, elections, social media outrage—repeating the same pattern over and over and over, expecting different results. But nothing changes, because they're treating the symptoms, not the cause.

And like I said, culture creates art, and art creates culture. So look at the art that your culture creates. And look at the culture that your art is creating. Art has been commercialized. Music is sterilized. Culture has been pacified.

You know—where are the cultural and artistic voices that shake the system? They don't exist in any meaningful way in America. They've been bought, or they've been co-opted. Instead of challenging the status quo, artists are performing at elite galas. Instead of inspiring some sort of revolutionary movement, they're selling products. They don't question power—they serve power.

That's why there'll never be a revolution in America. This is why even the smallest acts of resistance in modern America seem hollow, feel hollow, are hollow. Because they give the illusion of activism without requiring any sacrifice or effort.

Opposition is fashion. Activism has been turned into a product. It's a social currency—a momentary trend. And then when it fades, it's replaced by whatever the next cause will be that will capture the public’s fleeting attention.

The entire society has been engineered for distraction. Entertainment is relentless. Everything is gified. Everything is turned into a spectacle. Everything is designed to keep people from ever pausing to reflect, pausing to think, to question. And like I said—even if they had a moment to pause—they don't even have the intellectual, psychological, artistic, or cultural language to articulate their thoughts.

You only have the words that the power structure gives you for understanding what they're doing to you. In this environment, how can there ever be a revolution? How's that even possible?

If you are a people who are addicted to instant gratification, how can they sustain long-term struggle? A society that's conditioned to seek pleasure above all else—comfort above all else—is never going to choose hardship, even if that hardship is necessary for justice.

The population has been trained not to endure, but to escape. I said you've been trained to escape—not to endure. You've been trained. You've been programmed to be serfs. That's what you were, and that's what you are: serfs and slaves.

Only now escape doesn't actually mean escaping the plantation or the manor or the tenant land. It means just forgetting where you are and what you are. Escape means distraction. It means not even knowing the words to understand that you are a serf or a slave. It means that the songs you sing, the stories you tell, and even the dissent or the opposition that you express are all actually just methods of reinforcing your subject status.

And in America, even the dream of liberation isn’t really about liberation. The culture and the system created by the culture—and the art created by the culture—have made the dream not about liberation from oppression, but a dream about becoming the oppressor. That’s the American Dream."

"It’s a cruel society. It’s a cruel system. Because it’s a cruel culture."

"So like I say—you want short-term symptom treatment, not long-term cure of the disease. Because the only kind of revolution that you really need in America is a cultural revolution."

"America doesn't need cosmetic surgery. It needs brain surgery. It needs heart surgery. You don't need a pacemaker—you need a transplant."

"And unless and until you actually change your culture, the only way that you'll change your system is by changing it to become worse."

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