Recipe of a Revolution
You take a whirlwind of passion and contain it in a jar of repression and the whirlwind rises with even greater vigor, and that’s the recipe of a revolution.
The psychological theory of revolution says that a revolution is a result of sudden breakdown of social habits which makes the reconstruction of the new social order difficult. But one would like to believe or has been taught that change is the only constant, the gradual changes in social order are seen as conventional adaptations while the sudden changes are seen as a revolution or dissent against the societal norm. Now in this world of constant change, only flexibility can get you through the laser beam security of criticism but that flexibility is possible only till an extent.
The society functions through one mechanism and that is the constant disruption and reconstruction, a revolution, being the turning point of the page for a new story. So, I would like to believe that no matter how flexible or liberal you might be, there’s always a point of reconstruction which you’re going to come across and you’d have to change with disruption or with peace. The world or inhabitants of human life learn it the hard way and therefore, history just keeps getting longer and even more unbelievable.
Despotism, in fact is the counter response to failed reconstruction. The idea of a single man rising and being able to obtain dominance over people, is disparaging and challenging to the society. Monarchy, was still to an extent considered a social adaptation in the late century but dictatorship on the other hand was oppressive, impeding and completely unacceptable, providing a foresight to future uprising. Therefore, even democratic societies are not free from revolutions and one may not even realize it until it sweeps you away, which is the entire point. But even after this, the negative predictability and inevitability of revolutions is not valueless. When even an average person is compelled to act and there is outright destruction, you have got yourself a revolution in hand!
-Ananya Senger
