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Originally Posted by songwriter  Any "revolution" means destruction and violence, and that means imposing a new "order" using force... then you should keep that "order" by force too...
Think French Revolution, Russian Revolution, etc..... Obviously that's not the right thing, especially if we consider ourselves "conscious". |
Revolutions needn't be violent. Note that, in the Beatle's song you quoted the song's narrator was listening with an open mind to talk of revolution and evolution, but turned off when destruction was mentioned.
Violence is a poor way to start a society, because you end up with scores of people who want retribution. And then the cycle continues
"Revolution" is (as Wiktionary puts it) "A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change". Ghandi was as much a revolutionary as Mao - just a much more positive one.
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Originally Posted by songwriter That's The Beatles talking to that "Heretics". Think Gandhi... he did a... how do you say it... he stopped eating for a long time until a kind of civil war stopped in India, and it stopped. |
"Hunger strike".
I think it's a great shame that so many songs today miss the opportunity to send a meaningful message. The bulk of songs in the charts are "I love my bab-ay he/she so hot!" (or alternately "Boo hoo! My so-hot bay-bay left me!"). Love is certainly a core human emotion, but
surely there's other topics too?!