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Thursday, April 11th, 2019
Chapter Seven: Revolution
A revolution
is a turning of the wheel.
Every
revolution had a predictable outcome, a return to the beginning.
If the
revolutionaries succeeded in their ambitions the survivors must move quickly to
consolidate their power, and to set themselves up as the new overlords. To do
this they must rapidly quash all dissent. The most effective means of doing
this is the complete eradication of the remaining enemy forces.
The old
order had to be swept away, cleansed completely, man woman and child, the
entire family along every extension, to the seventh generation, everyone must
be put to the sword and consumed in the fire.
The
revolutionaries had to become tyrannical, ruling by fiat, or the old order
would reassert itself. Once the last vestiges of the enemy forces had been
rooted out, they had to cleanse their own ranks.
There was no
other way.
Cabal’s had
to be snapped, columns had to be broken. Leadership could never be shared by
those who are perpetually hungry for power.
Sometimes
this happened within a single generation, at other times it takes two or three,
but the transformation is inevitable. A revolutionary movement will always
transform itself into a despotic regime.
It becomes
what it beheld, content that it has done right.
A new rebellion
will foment, it will concentrate under pressure, and without fail the wheel
will turn again.
There is no escaping it.
It is the basic dilemma of being human.
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