A small clarification

Well, I was thinking about something I said on my first post, "revolution", and I thought I should clarify before my, as of yet, nonexistent readership or big brother gets the wrong idea. When I say revolution, I don't mean armed insurrection. I mean a changing of minds, not governments. I don't know of any violent revolution that led to a long lasting international peace. Please, feel free to inform me if you know of one. Violence in my opinion does nothing except breed violence. As the bumper sticker says “War doesn't find out who's right, only who's left." And I wholeheartedly agree.
A violent insurrection will not change minds, at least not in the way I mean. I don't think we need new programs in order to fix our old programs. (For a better understanding of that idea I suggest reading Daniel Quinn's "Story of B"). As far as I can tell the new masters have always been the same as the old masters.

Changed minds, a revolution in and of itself that for many is hard to imagine. Maybe even for you dear reader. Let's play a game of make believe. Let's imagine we live in a world of changed minds, a world in which we no longer believe that it's ok to pollute our air in exchange for profits, pump our rivers full of waste and toxins, allow mercury emissions to contaminate our streams and rivers (I have read more than once and seen on TV, that children and women of child bearing age should not eat any fish out of any body of water in the continental United States due to high level of mercury, which comes from coal-burning power plants). Imagine a world where we put people over profits, where the natural world was no longer considered separate from us, where we no longer saw melatonin as a basis for discrimination, or economic growth a substantive reason for exploitation. Imagine a world in which one out of every four women didn't get raped. Hell, forget those utopian ideals.
Imagine a world where your child could identify more plants and animals than logos. Imagine knowing your neighbors, or family for that matter.
Imagine a world where our interconnectivity was felt rather that theorized by quantum physics, and spiritual gurus.
A world where education meant learning how to live in such a world, wholly, holy.
I see evidence in my day to day life that we are reaching a critical mass of awareness, I see minds changing. Imagine a revolution that would ensure that our children's children would have a cleaner, safer world to live in. Imagine a revolution that looked to the seventh generation for inspiration.

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.
-from The Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy