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              %MAKING SENSE OF A CURRENT REVOLUTION 850917

     A  revolution involves significant changes which make
meaningful  differences to the people who find  themselves
involved in the revolution.   In each revolution there are
people who have vested interests and are prone to seek  to
inhibit the development of revolution.  In each revolution
there are other people who anticipate that the  revolution
will  bring them increased advantages.   Thus people often
find  themselves  in  conflict  within the  context  of  a
revolution.

     If we find ourselves involved in a revolution we  can
make  sense of our lives in the changing circumstances  if
we meaningfully understand the circumstances which lead up
to  the revolution,  the factors affecting the development
of  the  revolution,   and  the  probable  course  of  the
revolution.    It  is unlikely that  pretending  that  the
revolution   is  not  real  will  help  us  survive   more
meaningfully  than  becoming  familiar  with  the  various
aspects of the revolution.

     Revolutions  are often rooted in objective facts such
as  the  development of an agricultural life  style  among
nomadic  tribes;   the  exhaustion  of  forests  for  ship
building  and fuel;  the discovery of coal,  oil,  uranium
fission,   light element fusion,  solar energy,  etc.   as
sources  of  energy---and  the exhaustion of  such  energy
opportunities.    Many revolutions involve the  discovery,
shifting  uses of,  and exhaustion of natural resources as
means to satisfying basic and invented human needs.

     Revolutions often involve major shifts in life styles
and  the attitudes of peoples towards life styles.    Both
the  objective facts and the subjective attitudes  towards
those facts play important roles in revolutions.

     Our attitudes towards revolutions often flow from our
primary  ideals.   We may see a revolution as  threatening
our ideas,  our self-respect,  our sense of who we are and
may become.  The conflicts among people who participate in
revolutions are expressions of the conflicts between their
highest  ideals.    If the people can not  recognize  each
other,   unable  to  find ways  to  respect  each  other's
idealism.

     The  way  we  perceive a current  revolution  depends
heavily  upon  whether we have a vested  interest  in  the
status  quo,  might profit from the changes being  brought
about  by  the revolution,  or possibly neither.   We  may
regard  the  revolution as evil or good,  or a  matter  of
indifference.    How  we regard the  revolution  does  not
mirror and objective fact, rather it depends upon what the
revolution   means  to  us  in  our  own  perception   and
reflection upon what we think it will mean to us.

     It  is unlikely that we can perceive any  fundamental
revolution clearly and without bias.   If we are dedicated
to  being unbiased we may avoid viewing a revolution  with
bias  by trying to ignore it,  pretending it is not taking
place.    If  we  can not successfully ignore  it  we  may
pretend that it is not important and so not worthy of  our
attention.   Or,  we may choose to be selectively aware of
whatever may help.
                                                                                                                               
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