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messages would have resonated with me,
but they did not. Instead I felt even more
embittered, and was fairly glad to know I
would soon be leaving 2013 behind.
As I enter 2014, I f ind myself much less
cynical, with a renewed hope brought on
by the level of understanding only the recognition of past mistakes can truly generate. I realize now that I was anticipating
the wrong revolution, and the one I was
right to have expected has indeed been
underway for years. The wrong revolution
is the sudden one. It has a cool name, a
trendy cause, an outburst of popular support matched by a saturating two weeks in
the news. It is exciting, fun, full of hope
and promise, and ultimately doomed to
fail. It is doomed, in part, because the
world is not suited to it. There are simply
too many issues, too many competing concerns and interests, for any one event to so
entirely dominate our conscious as to precipitate any massive or destructive social
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