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What does rebellion really mean? If it means anything, it means scorning the false idea that the past must ever be like the future, because that is what the fates and furies and gods ordain, and we, miserable mortals, are limited by blood and tribe to death and dust. History’s great teaching is precisely that none of that has ever been true: there is a thing called the future, in which progress has stumbled onwards, but creating it is the most difficult work of all, because it is elusive, made of things we cannot touch or even see: human possibility.
So: we need more, better rebellion. We must learn how not to give up precisely. It isn’t enough, what we’re doing now. We are not learning from history what it means to have genuinely big, disruptive, transformative ideas. Such ideas are life-giving, not merely convenience-dispensing. Yet we have shrunk our expectations so low that such ideas mean a tighter window to deliver designer food now. Our vision is so narrow and cloudy now that life-giving, challenging ideas have come somehow mean drone-tacos instead of healthcare for sick little babies. What a pity. We have forgotten the sweep of human history, such ideas are only ever little, forgotten ones. Do you remember who sold designer lunches a century ago, or how? Nobody does. This broken age demands much more rebellion than we are giving it.
Via David Hain, Ricard Lloria
