Consciousness

It's a strange time we live in. On one hand the need for action has never been more urgent. Yet, the majority of people continue on as if nothing is new under the sun. The contrast between what needs to be done and what is being done is striking! One has to fight every moment not to get lulled into this common consciousness of amnesia, this violence of organized forgetting. Tune in and tune out. Be tuned out, only to be jolted awake by next police murder, the next climate report, the next right-to-work law, the next bombing, the homeless person on the street. The struggle of a revolutionary really is the struggle for consciousness of the masses, to seize that momentary opening caused by a jolt and pull the shades back even further. The burst of light will be momentarily painful, but ultimately wonderful unlike anything we've been taught to imagine.