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Reflections
on Liberty & Revolution Series – The Fashioning
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Popular revolutions are highly
deforming processes. They deliver their only good fruit on the short run
immediately after they are launched by breaking a certain psychological barrier
and undermining a certain sociopolitical state of affairs that were for long
deemed impossible to challenge. It takes decades before any other positive
consequences begin to emerge on the scene in the form of new culture and new social,
political and economic institutions. Meanwhile, the best have to keep
struggling against the worst, and all have to contend with that long buried
presence deep within their very minds and souls now leeching out, and, in some
cases, pouring, unstoppable.