Journal 32

To revolutionize the way people think or act is to change society or impact it in a huge way. Usually something like this starts with an innovative new idea. I always imagine someone having this great epiphany when I think of how revolutions start, mostly because that is the only real way things will change. Someone has to think of something worth doing before the general public will go on with it. You have to be either extremely brilliant or extremely convincing to get a majority of people to change their minds about anything. Nowadays, everything is a huge argument. We have to have some sort of realization within ourselves before we are even willing to accept a new idea as our opinion or lifestyle. There are so many ways of doing things today that something has to be extremely inspiring to change us all.
I guess a revolution really means to be convincing anymore. You cannot get people to change unless it makes their lives easier. People will never do anything more difficult than what they're doing now. All that will happen is people will find new ways to make themselves "happier", which really means making their lives easier. People tend to associate stress and discomfort with things like work and other physical/mental challenges, so they desire the ability to be lazy when they feel like it. A long time ago, people were working much harder than we do today, and yet we still complain. Even I'm guilty of it. Obviously I can identify with this because I'm the one explaining it. As time progresses, revolutions will only come with people trying to improve their lives by decreasing the amount of work they have to do to be what society perceives as successful. Movies like "Wall-E" and "Idiocracy" are perfect examples of this idea. They both take place in the future, and show how all that people do anymore is try to figure out more ways to make life easy. They demonstrate how if we continue on this path for the desire of relaxation, we will lose everything.