Revolution

[Tallgeese]

The Only Way to Have a Successful Revolution in Any Field of Human Activity

For what it is worth: Paul Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless a mind-opening team with a peculiar membership goes to work on them. Otherwise, life will go on exactly as before, no matter how painful, unrealistic, unjust, ludicrous , or downright dumb life may be.

The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise, the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.

The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic genius ,Äì a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in general circulation. "A genius working alone," he says, "is invariably ignored as a lunatic."

The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find: a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas of the genius, and who testifies that the genius is far from mad. "A person like that working alone," says Slazinger, "can only yearn out loud for changes, but fail to say what their shapes should be."

The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain anything, not matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pig-headed  they may be. "He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting," says Slazinger. "Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey."

Slazinger says that every successful revolution, including Abstract Expressionism, had that cast of characters at the top ,Äì Pollock being the genius in that case, Lenin being the one in Russia's, Christ being the one in Christianity's. He says that if you can't get a cast like that together, you can forget changing anything in a great big way.


*shamelessly plagiarized

[EvilPoet]

*shamelessly plagiarized

Just out of curiosity, from where? Here?

Slazinger says that every successful revolution, including Abstract Expressionism, had that cast of characters at the top ,Äì Pollock being the genius in that case, Lenin being the one in Russia's, Christ being the one in Christianity's. He says that if you can't get a cast like that together, you can forget changing anything in a great big way.

"Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be
summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment."
-Kurt Vonnegut

[Tallgeese]

Just out of curiosity, from where? Here?

No, I copied it from the actual book.

[EvilPoet]

Just out of curiosity, from where? Here?

No, I copied it from the actual book.

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

[Trollax]

OK so where's my pillar of the community and universal translator on legs?