Post Modern Revolution?

So this strikes me as a little off. On the one hand you have a certain kind of revolutionary spirit which says that revolution can come about peacefully. You know, those people who advocate for sit-ins, marches, and demonstrations.

These people like to show up at events, but after the event very few of them will care enough to continue in their chosen protests in their everyday lives in the hope of change. On the other hand, however, are the radicals and social shit-kickers who fully believe that a true revolution requires (to use Marxist terminology) that the proletariat takes up armed protest to fuck over the bourgeoisie.

Okay, so why am I saying this? What purpose could I possibly have to talk about how there are two extremes to attaining social revolution?

Well, to be kind of honest with all my fellow Brandon University students out there, it’s because for the last five years I’ve been here it’s been you that piss me off the most.

There is a strong plague roaming around campus known as apathy. A lot of you say you care about the issues, but almost none of you want to get involved with those of us actually advocating social change. To be fair, maybe it’s because none of you really think your university years are going to help define who you’ll turn out to be, or maybe it’s because you can never find the time to get away from the daily toil of that paper that you have to write by Friday. So here, unofficially, is your Top Three POMO’d guide to how to achieve social change without actually getting off your asses to either show up to a protest or to start being a social shit-kicker. Enjoy!

1) Question Everything! See that tree over there? Deny that it’s a tree. Truth is the vital opiate that we all fall into. If we can learn that truth is individually constructed we can tear down certain truths that exist; all drugs are bad, music students have it easy, and even blondes have more fun. None of these are true, yet a lot of you seem to think it. Truth is a fallacy, interpretation is all that exists.

2) Swear! Language has been built up and torn down throughout history. Our language will not exist in thirty years. New slang appears and old slang passes much in the way of Old English. Fuck is just another fucking word that pisses the fuck out of every fucking conformist out there. “Oh no, you can’t say fuck here... fuck is naughty...” gasp Well... Fuck that, of course fucking is fucking naughty but I’m saying fuck as in fuck you jackass. See, swearing works to get your point across.

3) Don’t Ignore how Racism, Class-ism, Heterosexism, Patriarchy, and Ageism affect each and every fucking one of us! The traditional “isms” still exist and just because feminism changed a lot doesn’t mean it’s fixed all your freaking issues. The same is true with the civil rights movement, socialism, and gay rights. These have brought up the issues, but don’t be ignorant and think everything is all bloody hunky-dory in the wonderful world of Brandon. It’s not all fucking great, get your head out of the clouds and start to stand up to others when they’re being jackasses. Goddess I love rule number two.

So be the change you want to say in your life. Fuck notions of identity, and tear up those little boxes that social conformity places each and every one of us in. Screw gender and to hell with racism.

Shove Capitalism up Harper’s ass, and take hetero-sexism and shove it up your ass just to shit it out and take pictures while its battered and bruised. Tell ageism to kiss your royal hairy asses and patriarchy to go fuck itself.

Be the change, don’t wait for it to happen because life is too freaking short to just sit around complaining about the state of things. To all you shit-kickers already out there, kudos, and to all you people who are fed up with the world, welcome to our world.