The notion that capitalism is here forever, that it is the greatest system since sliced bread.

This is a self-delusional idea because of the fear of change, the fear of the unknown,

the fear of wondering what comes next if the system we've become used to, were to fall apart.

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I have heard in the last two years the word revolution mentioned more times than I did in the preceding 20.

In protest groups at meetings and overwhelmingly online, I have heard people talking about revolution as if it is the coming thing,

a necessary thing. Occupy, Sirisa, Padenas, the Arab Spring, the near break up of the United Kingdom during the referendum.

We slip into talk with revolution constantly these days, we presume a change is coming.

Personally, I am thrilled with the current fashion wellness of the word revolution,

because I like the word revolution. It is my third favourite word after cathedral, chagrin, and cumberbatch.

But I should make it clear, I like the word revolution as it's defined in the second entry in the dictionary and not the first.

The dictionary's first definition of the word revolution is this rebellion, revolt, mutiny, riot, insurgency, overthrow,

anarchy, regime change, and disorder. And personally, I am not up for that.

The kind of people who are up for mutines and riots and violent change tend to be young men,

the kind for whom and afternoon of being cattled by 600 policemen before breaking free and wanging a brick through the window of Duncan Donuts,

feels like a life of therming alternative to sport. I, on the other hand, am a 41-year-old woman with very inferior running abilities.

And two children. So, I don't like riots, I don't like anarchy, I've read enough history books to be resounding the un-keyen on extreme politics of either the left or the right.

Breakdowns in society, anarchy, overthrows of seizure, and disorder, because they tend to work out really badly for women and children.

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