Revolution

It's all about perception. How we as humans perceive the world around us. This is what makes us who we are. It is the way we perceive the religion that makes either fundamentalist or "regular." It is the way we perceive freedom that makes a terrorist or a patriot.

This is how we work. "To be or not to be?" as Shakespeare put it. This is the crux of it all. The terrorist perceive their cause as "just" and therefore they choose to be what we call terrorists. We, on the other hand, perceive their cause not to be "just" and therein we choose anti-terrorist.

Yet our choosing not to be and them choosing to be gets either of us no where. The terrorist aren't winning, and likewise the anti-terrorist aren't winning. Both only perceive that either of them are winning and loosing. Each of them tout their wins and shrug their losses each of them are patriots and terrorists to whoever perceive them as such. Wherever somebody decides 'to be' there is another person who has equally decided 'not to be.' By all accounts a terrorist is a patriot and a patriot is a terrorist. It is this perception of each to his own, that we hold, that gives us the situation we live in. It is our perception of the world that gives way to terrorists and anti-terrorists. It is our perception of the world that tells us to be or not to be?

When a perception is so strong it becomes as true as one's heart beats true. If your heart ain't beating, lets not kid our selves, all things considered it's quite false. Nevertheless if the former is true then the perceptions must end.

I must interdict the point that we all live on this Earth, it is as much my planet as it is 6 billion other peoples planet. We all live and share space on this rock equally. Therefore I, myself, can't choose to be or not to be. I can't choose the red pill or the blue pill, I can't choose Christianity or Islam, I can't choose bomb or resolution for all have once been answers to the same problems. The last 60 or so years we have been asking ourselves to be or not to be? To be a fundamentalist or not to be? For some the choice is easy. For others the choice is not. For both the choice has never left.

Some say there is a middle ground this solves the to be or not to be question. Yet the "maybe" or "neither" solution is not a solution at all. It is merely the middle of two points connect by one line we all travel. It is merely the spectrum of life we set our selves to live in. To be or not to be cannot be answered by not answering it at all.

The answer? To be or not to be? To be a Jew or to be a Muslim? To be an American or to be an Iranian? To be or not to be, that is the question. The answer is to revolutionize. NOT to be neither not to be something far off and stupid. I know not what revolution I should choose. But I know the answer does not lie with the question. I know to be a terrorist will get me now where, and as it seems to be an anti-terrorist will still get me a terrorist somewhere. I am but one person in this vast space. While I am alive I intend to live life outside the laws of Shakespeare's question. I choose not to be either. I choose to be a Revolutionary a person outside the spectrum of life we all do travel. It is my choice to make and the road is open for others to follow.

There is a third option my dear Shakespeare, it was neither to be or not to be, rather it was to Revolutionize. The Americans did it to secure there homeland from the British. The Blacks did it to secure their rights as humans. The Indians did it to secure their homes from the British. The Soviets did it in order to secure their Motherland. We must do it again.