making the nü: how revolutions work

The great­est rev­o­lu­tion­ary act you can make is to cre­ate a world around you where peo­ple care about and for each oth­er, and help peo­ple think a lit­tle hard­er and imag­ine even more than they had before.

The truth is: Un­less you are ac­tu­al­ly over­throw­ing the gov­ern­ment, you are in a war of at­tri­tion and re­form, as the old mind­set moves out and hope­ful­ly isn’t able to pass on their hate as broad­ly as when they re­ceived it.

But that means the onus lies on us.

We have to learn, and grow, and pass our lessons on to the world around us more than those who share their ha­tred, and we have to make sure we aren’t just adopt­ing a dif­fer­ent form of ha­tred that’s framed like uni­ty but func­tions more like division.

Our na­tion is a basin filled with hate and greed and self­ish ego­ism, and as it drains it is our job to re­place it with love and uni­ty for the sake of our chil­dren, and the fu­ture of our world as a whole.
 
 

—david loret de mola

Flom­mist David Loret de Mola is a Grand Slam Po­et­ry Cham­pi­on of Sacra­men­to with Sac Uni­fied Slam Team and Zero For­bid­den Goals who has rep­re­sent­ed the City of Sacra­men­to in the Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam, and 100 Thou­sand Po­ets for Change in Saler­no, Italy. Copy­right © 2019 David Loret de Mola. Pic­tured: Ernst Lud­wig Kirch­n­er, Girl in Tub, 1913, source.

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