What does the word revolution evoke for you?

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What do you think about the revolution?

andreasderjuengere · Accepted Answer

It's a rotation :D And sociologically, I see it as a discussable tool to adjust your 'country' to achieve a few betterments.

kitkills · Accepted Answer

Rapid change by the hands of a large group of people. Any kind really.

CountessSarah · Accepted Answer

The codename for Nintendo's fifth console before they officially named it the Wii. Still say Revolution was a better name.

Smoke-n-Growls · Accepted Answer

Fantastic. People rising up to remove injustice and unequal power structures. Guillotines. Eat the Rich.

nightdrot · Answer

Not sure what the question means by what the word "revolution" evokes. Being in politics, as I have been for over 30 years, it typically means political upheaval of some kind or other. However, its' intellectual origins are somewhat complex.

Originally, the term "revolution" as used by the ancient Greeks meat a return to what things were. Given its modern usage, this is somewhat ironic. "Revolution" in the Greek sense was something of a restoration. A political or social order had broken down and revolution was the point in which the socio-political order returned to first principles, so to speak.

(Just as an aside, this usage actually had its origins in science. When a planet made one orbit around its' star, it was said to have completed one revolution around the star.)

The modern - and if I may add more sinister - usage began with the Enlightenment. The idea behind the Enlightenment was - and is - an order rooted in natural law. Where law, society and politics are made in conformance with those natural laws - including natural rights in some later usages - order and harmony will follow.

However, law, society and politics often, for various reasons, become distorted. This resulting in political disharmony, turmoil and imperfection. A revolution then was a violent reaction against this disharmony to restore the natural law.

The American Revolution - and the "Glorious Revolution" in the UK - was fought in this intellectual tradition - and indeed, the USA is a product of the Enlightenment. However, this went a step further in the rRomantic reaction to the Enlightenment. Particularly in the ideas of Rousseau and the French Revolution (and later in a more sinister way, Marx.) It called for the overturning of basically everything - of the whole of the established order.

Suffice to say, this was a bloody affair. Chaos resulted. For the classic explanation of all this, see also Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France." As man is a social being, revolution disconnects him from his fellow man, and bad things follow.

This is just a short summation of a longer intellectual history. However, it basically sums up what the term "revolution" evokes for me. It actually does the same for most people, only lacking an awareness of the intellectual history, they don't realize it. Thus the term "revolution" gets thrown carelessly about, and thus politics on the planet is what it is today.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Flea and tick treatment for dogs and cats.

exitseven · Answer

I think of revolutions per minute.

Yucy_Gluttony · Answer

' I... AM... SPARTACUUUUUUUUUS Spaaaaaaaaaaaartacus spaaaartacus '

clampfan101 · Answer

The last book of The Bible.

Agape93 · Answer

Violence

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