Journal of the mental environment
Peaceful revolution
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. Here is Josh Raskin’s visual interpretation of that interview.
- Tue, 05 Aug 2008 3:21 pm — Posted by Abdul
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I Met the Walrus by Josh Raskin
Can a revolution happen without violence? What do you think?
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Its so true all of it why does my generation do nothing about anything we havent a musician since kurt cobain that says anything controversial or changes the way we think, money isnt the problem its saying stuff like ohh revolution cant be achieved without violence and thinking nobody else gives a f**k so why should i and we just sit by and get walked all over.
violence is not human nature, it is taught. by society or whomever. i really liked listening to this. and i agree 100%.
juliej
i disagree. i think violence is part of human nature, in the sense that humans have the capacity to learn. at some point it is going to be beneficial to some person or party to use violence to get what it wants. so people learn that violence is a viable option. the only way to overcome it is when we begin to learn that we are all too connected and dependant on each other to let violence continue anymore. we must evolve out of violence and into peace. reroute or thought process out of an antiquated notion that war is necessary. unfortunately that requires all people of the world to come together in a collective concious "awakening" and i dont see that happening for a long long time. so in the meantime there will be many more wars and much more bloodshed. at least untill the war of ideas is won gennerations from now.
There are a lot of things we can strive for, and world peace is one of them. But the reality is it will never happen, the best we can hope for, is when we do fight it's for the right reasons.
Peace can only grow from a cultivated spirit who's tilled greed & selfishness into the fertile soil of love. No external revolution will ever bring about the change that's required on the inside. Once revolution of self is won, you'll become the change you want to see in the world.
Here here! The only person you can control is yourself (with lots of practice)
I love John Lennon as a philosopher, musician, writer and teacher. But there is one thing John is not, and that is a realist. No. Revolution cannot be non violent. At least one to cause great social and national change. Thats just how it is. All these organizations protesting is meaningless. All these college students living off of government loans showing up to protest a war is a joke. Hypocritical even. Sad. Yes. True. Yes.
I'm sorry but Gandhi proved that a peaceful revolution can be successful. Obviously, there must be a strong reason to do it.
so what would you say about martin luther king and gandhi?
MLK was dealing with an American problem where there were specific sides that can be addressed. Violence and war are global problems, and frankly it is backed by millions of years of evolutionized instinct.
The fight still goes on does it not? Violence and war are human nature and it is the human race as a whole that is responsible. Instead of battling millions of years of instinct, I think we will find harmony in acceptance.
It's been almost 40 years since that interview, and so many things have happened, and yet, everything seems to be the same. Is there really a way to change it?
"...so it's about the UK, it's about USSR, it's about nothing, and it's about the USA..."
Why was Canada labeled as nothing?
amzazing
How true! WE ARE the people who have the power of government. By doing nothing to protest the Iraq war to our elected officials, we are ultimately responsible.for its continuance.
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