Case study #5 Ambushing the Pursuit of Happiness. Part I. Hijacking doubt.

 




Don't you love how all Artists are Left-wing and when we hear the word "Revolution" we reach for the French version and not the original, modern version in the United States of America. Their longest serving Constitution for the Re-public is never cited as delivering social justice, just more inequality for the poor huddled masses of a velvet revolution. Rather, we jump on the Paris 68 bandwagon to hijack the Pursuit of Happiness with 20C cries of Liberté, égalité, (non-gender specific) fraternité and something about demanding the impossible while we look for the beach beneath the street. ACAB is our collective con-science, our historical memory map indicating on which side of history and those barricades we should have been standing if we were old enough to forget reality and live the historical moment. Like the two month Paris Comune a century before, this undergraduate revolution failed for a very good reason and beyond reasonable doubt.

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