The Doors
This is the end my beautiful friend, the end
Revolutions," Berdyaev says, are preceded by a process of disintegration, a decline of faith, the loss by people of a unifying spiritual center of life. As a result of it the people lose their spiritual liberty, become possessed by the devil;" the leading part among them is played by the extreme elements, Jacobins, Bolsheviks, men who imagine themselves to be free creators of a new future, but in truth are passive "mediums of formless elements; they are really turned not to the future but to the past, for they are slaves of the past, chained to it by malice, envy and revenge" (PHILOSOPHY OF INEQUALITY). Hence, revolutions can do nothing but destroy; they are never creative.
John Lennon sang his song Revolution some years later.
Later still is 2022. So much is goin’ on and novelty continues to increase and WAR, that reliable monkey wrench, is omnipresent, if not really grasped as Revolutionary. Only today amusingly enough we had a Ukrainian nuclear power plant virtually or physically attacked with precision munitions or bombs - but it was only the Administration building-”Attention! Russian military vehicles are firing on #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. There is real danger of #nuclear accident" Then a bit later -
Important information from Zaporizhzhia NPP:
At the moment, the third power unit was shut down at the plant and only the fourth unit is working;
The radiation and fire safety conditions at the nuclear power plant are within normal limits.
Well. Reassuring. Glad to know it’s all okay. Though might be a useful propaganda point for one side or the other and surely play some role in rallying opinion.
Wo bist du Adam and Eve American? We miss you. No postcard. No telegram. Were you abducted by aliens, shot by a drug cartel, lost in a drug haze working 9-5 night and day, where are you, where on the Ventura highway will the News Chopper sight the wreckage on a concrete island with car parts arranged in an SOS, or on Highway One heading North going off the cliff in Big Sur at the very edge of Western Civilization? Maybe it is true that Babbitt was your father and your mother a stripper but damn it you are citizens and pay taxes and lingering psychosis instilled at birth and in life is no excuse for behaving badly like this so come Home ET, come back though you never can go Home again or as good Gertrude quipped, “There is no there there.”