So...do you think there'll ever actually be a revolution?

New smarter technologies means tanquil revolutions are underway.

Dereligionizing politics will revolutionize how conceptions of the world are mediatized and this will help to open imaginations to the multiplicity of humanity's becomings.

The rise of the sovereign subject @ the Will to Jouissance
showing a great appetite for freedom
by resisting contemporary slavery =
applied nietzschean aesthetic
as an existentialism.

this sounds like a totally awesome beer commercial

In the US?
No

What is the difference between a coup & revolution?
Not that much when you come down to it. Violent overthrow generally tends to mean disaster. I’ve seen the effects of two and one was a disaster and the second – well, has the potential for rejuvenation and also the potential for huge disaster.

I’ve been thru one revolution (I was very lucky young age saved me from worst aspects) and they are NOT fun to live through

even tho’ ‘coz of my age I was spared a lot of the hellishness, I still have real fun experiences and memories, like having ppl with machine guns search my toy chest or having ppl in tanks come to take my dad away (and I was v. lucky that he came back, many friends had parents killed or imprisoned for years)

Renting videos/watching videos was also a sensitive issue – I remember that we had books that could ONLY be loaned to particular ppl, fuck loaned – SEEN- by particular ppl. Video stores could not rent films like “Missing” and would only let you take them if they trusted/knew you. (Guess I should be happy that at age 9 I was allowed to rent stuff and see what they had in the back of store)

Revolution drove me family (amongst a lot of other Ethiopians) into exile and those repercussions are still being felt. I was an activist in US for years and used to hear from friend s the phrase “come the revolution….” With (yes, joking) subtext that “ _____ will be up against the wall” but I always winced’coz I know/knew ppl who were up against the wall and it isn’t just a statement or joke. This happened/happens and cannot be ignored or forgotten.

Sorry for babbling but this question hit a nerve.

Never in America or in a first world country. The citizens are too lazy and too babied. A revolution for what? More socialism? More of a theocracy? The level of oppression in first world countries is inconsequential at best. Besides, it would definitely interrupt American Idol and the Bachelor to do things like overthrow the government.

Does anyone in this bitch know how big the Cincinnati riots were, compared to LA?

HOBBIT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!

Now as to whether I will see this in my lifetime: Hell, I don't know. I do think that the water and power crisis in the west is going to continue to become more dire, with population growth and rapid expansion of the urban growth problem. I do wonder if Southern California will ever break away from Northern California (or, if, conversely, No. Cal. will divorce the southerners).
I do not think that America is heading toward a near-term cultural revolution or a significant change in political arrangements. Over time there will be evolution in these areas, but I do not see the people rising-up to overthrow the government based on ideological reasons. To put it simply, Americans (and many of those of us in the Western world) are too comfortable with the status quo. We're inclined to look at those on the extremes with fear and amusement - not to identify with them. And when a "revolutionary" group gains power, then we tend to move away from them, in order to establish distance and difference between the weirdos and the self.

Wow - sorry that's all mucked up. Really, there are some good thoughts in there, I just can't quite seem to phrase them correctly.