There's a fine line between being a rebel and just straight-up being a twat, and that line tends to blur a lot. For example, let's say you revolt against the American public schooling system, because you consider it to be stifling and obtuse. Now, it's proven pretty well that peaceful discourse is not going to fix the schools. But acting up in school to make a point? Probably doesn't really mean anything. And the whole point of revolution is to get a message across, and no one's going to be able to tell the difference between the political activist and the douchebag who is just sticking it to authority for the sake of sticking it to authority. It's hard to make a point that way.
Then again, there really isn't much of a point to revolution in a country that, for the most part at this point, is relatively stable. Anyone starting a revolution in a corrupt dictatorship always gets full support, but if somebody who believed in fascism wanted to overthrow US, we'd murder their asses. Obviously, anyone who did that would be a moron, but I'm not really going to take a side there. I don't really have much of an opinion on it, it's just something I find interesting.
That's the problem with this pseudo-existential thinking. It's hard to take a side, and you can't really say anything conclusive in the end. I'm just pointing out things to think about, an I'm not entirely sure if anyway of it matters.
I bet the drastic shifts in tone on this website would make people think I was schizophrenic if anyone actually read it.
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