Hunger

Revolution is a consequence of hunger. Without hunger, there is no need for revolution.

What then, of the current generation of youths? How hungry do you think they're going to get, when they're unemployed for one, two, three, five years?

How recognisable do you think they'll be, when you see them take to the streets, no longer looking for recognition or justice, but now demanding atonement? How afraid are you, you people in your 30s, 40s, and 50s, that a whole wave of youths are living with empty bellies and clenching fists? How aware are you, that they look upon you with hate? How aware are you of their reasons why? That you have left them with no jobs, a mountain of historical debt, a raped and dying ecology; that you take no responsibility for the destruction you have wrought, while they live with the legacy of your carelessness.

Hunger... hunger is the essential ingredient of revolution. You are not hungry, perhaps, in your job, with a comfortable apartment or house, with your free education and your secured futures, with your unsustainable pensions that take the money from your own child's future pockets, giving them a bill instead.

They are hungry... they are angry... and they blame you.