The Revolution of the Mind
"The revolution will not be televised because the first revolution happens inside your mind." —Gil Scott-Heron
Still of Gil Scott-Heron taken from youtu.be/1Iklff1pNWY
From Merriam-Webster online:
Revolution: a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something : a change of paradigm. From the Latin revolvere meaning “to revolve or roll back.”
The Revolution of the Mind
by C.A. Matthews
It’s odd, but you can tell that many Americans feel uncomfortable using the world revolution with one notable exception: They will say “the American Revolution” when referring to the conflict the white colonists fought to gain their independence from Great Britain.
Advertisers frequently use the description term revolutionary when selling merchandise, everything from dish soap to feminine hygiene products, but even they hesitate to use the word revolution by itself in their ad copy.
Why all this fear and trepidation over a perfectly useful word? What dark, sinister secondary meaning does revolution hold for so many? How can we reclaim revolution and its healing power?
As you can tell by looking at the masthead above, revolution holds no threat to our peace of mind here at The Revolution Continues. In fact, as the years progress, the word has become almost a mantra of sorts for your truly. Whenever something hideous occurs in the world—say a livestreamed genocide of innocents, particularly children—I often find myself saying under my breath repeatedly: This will all come to an end, come the revolution…
I’m reassuring myself that one day there will be a great change of paradigm and the billionaires and their lackeys who persecute us now will be gone and the world will revolve around the workers of the world instead. Our needs and wishes to live in peace and harmony will reign then, not the oligarchs’ greed and selfishness. It’s an optimistic take on what seems a pessimistic era in our civilization’s history, but one must do what one must do to get out of bed and not cry all day long. Nothing changes that way.
If the revolution won’t be televised, will it be livestreamed instead? Open up your social media apps and tell me that the revolution isn’t being livestreamed now. Things are changing radically in front of our eyes in real time. Immigrants and their supporters are fighting against ICE. Protesters are going to jail simply for saying, “I don’t support genocide,” in the UK. The world is revolving around a different narrative than the one the powers-that-be want us to believe. Many of us in the working classes aren’t buying into the lies and excuses of the richest 1% anymore.
To borrow an old expression, “The cat’s out of the bag,” and that kitty is hissing and scratching to prevent itself from being stuffed back inside, kept in the dark, and thrown into the river to drown as the oligarchs are tempted to do to us who don’t do or think as we’re told.
However, What Will Start the Revolution? I explored this question a few months back. My thought then was that, for most Americans, revolution will come about because of some event or action they feel is a threat to them personally and not because of any altruistic motives.
The genocides happening in Gaza, in Sudan, the Congo and elsewhere on the planet barely register for the majority of Americans. They don’t know what’s happening down the street let alone what’s occurring on the other side of the planet. Why are they so out of touch? Don’t they want to know what’s happening?
I believe their lack of awareness is mainly because they have been deliberately kept in the dark by our oligarchy-owned-and-operated mainstream media for a very long time. “What you don’t know won’t hurt you,” the old saying goes. In other words, not all the “cats” have fought their way out of the “bag” of the corrupt system’s propaganda and disinformation campaign.
So, most Americans won’t know what hit them when the AI-guided drones, field-tested in Gaza, start taking out individual agitators and their families in ordinary cities. Most will scratch their heads, staring at the horror, never believing for a second that the war profiteers hadn’t meant to use these death machines against them all along.
But even if news of what is really happening was broadcast on mainstream outlets, I still believe many Americans would respond with a trite, “So sad, but too bad for you. What’s it got to do with me?”
Americans’ role models—such as Donald Trump or Elon Musk—aren’t the most moral and compassionate of human beings you may have noticed. This lack of empathy displayed by our political and financial leaders is reflected in many Americans’ sociopathic behavior.
It was reflected in one guy’s behavior I witnessed last night. Speeding down the street, he took the time to hang his head out of his car window and shout, “F*ck Gaza!” at our protest group as we stood on the corner with our signs and flags. Fortunately, the majority of drivers passed by with a pleasant “honk for peace” or a smile, making peace signs with their fingers.
This demonstrates that a significant proportion of Americans’ paradigms are evolving, changing, as they’ve witness the livestreamed genocide in Gaza on their computing devices. It also could be because they’ve come to the awful realization that those they trusted in government are plain flat-out lying to them.
The brouhaha surrounding the Epstein files or list might just be the revolving point that helps to bring down the corrupt oligarchic system in the US. Americans who actually believed Trump’s campaign promises that he would act as a “peace president,” and that he’d release the Epstein list of client names and expose the pedophile sex-traffickers, are fighting mad today.
They feel they’ve been made to look foolish for trusting Trump. They feel betrayed. And nothing motivates human action more than the irate sense of betrayal.
These former-Trump supporters see now that it’s “Israel first” and not “Make America Great Again.” Even the Christian Zy0nists in his corner are worried about recent bombings of churches in Gaza. Growing ever more agitated, they’re motivated to take down Trump and his henchpersons.
They’re not blindly believing everything their former hero says anymore. They see signs that Trump doesn’t believe the same way they do. They expect to discover Trump’s name on the top of Epstein’s list along with images of him molesting underage girls.
It’s quite a role reversal, a complete revolution in their thinking for many. Their revolution is one of the mind that could possibly inspire a physical revolution as they attempt to impeach—or even lynch—the orange-faced liar in the White House.
Seeing Trump’s bloated corpse dangling like Mussolini’s did would be quite a spectacle, wouldn’t it? Don’t think it couldn’t happen in the US? Many Americans are mad as hell. Anything can happen once a revolution is born.
Members of the other half of the duopoly, a.k.a. “the parties of War and Wall Street”, are also undergoing a revolution of the mind. It’s possibly a change of paradigm that they’re not even consciously aware of themselves. I wrote a scenario about this subconscious realization in Everything You Wanted to Know About Maintaining the Status Quo (But Were Afraid You Already Knew).
I was inspired to write the piece by people who have talked with me at demonstrations, telling me things like, “Once the Democrats are back in the White House and control Congress, then the genocide in Gaza will stop. And we’ll have Medicare For All, too.”
My reply to them goes like this: “Why didn’t Biden shut down the genocide at its beginning by simply not providing arms to Israel and telling our Western allies to do the same? Why didn’t the Dems pass a universal health care bill while they had the majority in both houses of Congress during Obama’s term instead of that corporate-concocted Obamacare mess? And why is it that your beloved AOC just voted for $500 million in missile funding to Israel without any conditions—like first stopping their genocide in Gaza?”
Usually I get a lot of spluttering and cursing and repeating of the oligarchs’ narrative that it’s “the other party’s fault” for why nothing has changed for the better. But most just walk away with a puzzled, hangdog expression.
I think they understand that they’ve are being lied to every bit as much as the Trump supporters have been lied to. Theirs is a revolution of the mind, too. Most Americans do get “The Ratchet Effect” and realize nothing will ever change in American politics until the duopoly is dead and gone.
A lying, child-molesting, genocide-enabling regime will be replaced with a lying, child-sniffing, genocide-enabling regime, ad infintum, if things stay the same in American politics. Voting for the duopoly is totally pointless.
We’ll have to wait and see if the neoliberals will actually join forces with their neocon brethren of the duopoly to remove the liars in government. Maybe one day they’ll even unite to institute a government of the people, tearing down the current regime of war-profiteering, genocidal, capitalist despots that lobby and bribe blue and red MAGAts alike. But the mind must experience a revolution first or else there will be no lasting change.
Perhaps the reason why revolution has been colored as a term used only by “dirty commies” is that the oligarchs can’t have the working classes changing their minds and following their consciences. The current corrupt system insists that the working class never revolve or turn away from blindly following the narrative of the lying billionaires and their politician-puppets. The oligarchs’ profits depend upon our ignorance and acquiescence. Keeping the workers stupid and timid is their goal.
For you see, revolution can be dangerous—but so can living with lies and corruption as we’re witnessing today. Revolutions are seen as a threat to the status quo, not the working class.
After all, it’s not the poor people of the West who are bombing Gaza, Damascus, and Tehran. It’s the war profiteers of the military-Congressional-industrial complex.
It’s not the poor Palestinians who will be allowed to profit from the $900 billion worth of natural gas reserves located off the coast of Gaza. It’s the CEOs of Chevron and British Petroleum.
It’s not poor Americans making billions of dollars in profits from the US private health care system, causing 68,000 preventable deaths yearly. It’s the obscenely wealthy and heartless CEOs of UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Centene…
It’s not the ordinary working people who should ever be afraid of a revolution of the mind or a revolution of the system.
The workers’ minds have and will continue to change. They’ll roll back the stone of the false narrative one day, and they will see the world and its villains clearly, perhaps for the first time ever. And then life will improve for everyone and everything on the planet.
¡Viva la revolución! ¡Larga vida a la revolución de la mente!
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. —George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic
Article and Video Links for Those Changing the Paradigm…
Gaza Isn't Starving, It Is Being Starved https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/gaza-isnt-starving-it-is-being-starved
AOC Is A Genocidal Con Artist https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aoc-is-a-genocidal-con-artist
Will Gaza’s Bombed Church Awaken the Christian Conscience? https://medeabenjamin.substack.com/p/will-gazas-bombed-church-awaken-the
Trump Has Completely Dropped His "Populist" Act https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-has-completely-dropped-his
Jeffrey Sachs: I Warned You Something is Coming And Now It's Here... youtu.be/t7kz1mhembw (Super informative and very clearly stated.)
AMAZING: The Hague Group! youtu.be/fBcyaGDDzTc
What Links Ireland and Palestine? (short video)
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-new-york-times-finally-stops
Nations Commit To ‘Unprecedented Measures’ Holding Israel Accountable https://popularresistance.org/nations-commit-to-unprecedented-measures-holding-israel-accountable-for-genocide/
US gov't is very afraid of BRICS and dedollarization, Trump insiders reveal. That's why he's attacking Brazil https://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/p/us-afraid-brics-dedollarization-trump-brazil
On Gaza, the goal is to confuse us about where rights end and criminality begins https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/on-gaza-the-goal-is-to-confuse-us
UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Holds Press Conference in Colombia youtu.be/XhugiI7I-0U
Francesca Albanese explains why Israel's actions in Gaza amount to 'genocide'
Medicaid Is Giving ICE Access to Data of 79M Enrollees, Including Ethnicity https://truthout.org/articles/medicaid-is-giving-ice-access-to-data-of-79m-enrollees-including-ethnicity/
Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador https://www.404media.co/flight-manifests-reveal-dozens-of-previously-unknown-people-on-three-deportation-flights-to-el-salvador/
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court https://theintercept.com/2025/07/15/ice-lawyers-hiding-names-court/
ICE Arrest Surge in May and June Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal History https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-arrest-surge-in-may-and-june
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations
Palestine Remembered https://www.palestineremembered.com/
A 77-year-old country is bombing a 5000-year-old city https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/a-77-year-old-country-is-bombing
Releasing the Files (Epstein Files parody song) youtu.be/ELJhKli-dmk
Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza: 40 days of solidarity and compassion https://www.pressenza.com/2025/07/veterans-allies-fast-for-gaza-40-days-of-solidarity-and-compassion/
Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks (w/ Nick Bryant) | The Chris Hedges Report https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-and
Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism & Neofascism Defined https://ericbrooks.substack.com/p/neoliberalism-neoconservatism-and
Why the US is allowing Israel to bomb Iran: Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American strategy toward Iran https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
'The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing
RFK Jr. Wants to Change a Program That Stopped Vaccine Makers From Leaving the U.S. Market. They Could Flee Again. https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-childhood-vaccines-vicp
'We're not just gonna roll over': The US Civil War battlefield at the centre of a new conflict https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250711-the-last-battle-of-the-us-civil-war-is-against-ai
80 Years After Trinity https://scheerpost.com/2025/07/18/80-years-after-trinity/ (80 years since the atom bomb made the world a more dangerous place…)
The single most amazing fact about the Universe https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/single-most-amazing-fact-universe/
I Went to See Superman As an Escape from Reality – Reality Was Still There https://countercurrents.org/2025/07/i-went-to-see-superman-as-an-escape-from-reality-reality-was-still-there/
Excellent article! You have given me a bit of needed hope. I've been playing with the idea of revolution in the US in my mind, and I see a country so brainwashed and divided that I see us resembling a powder keg with ball bearings in it. Who knows what will be the outcome if bloody revolution ignites since there are so many divisions within the population. Who would end up in power? How many pieces will this country be broken into? What happens to the Nukes? What are the chances that a socialist ideology would be able to take over considering the epic propaganda machine, more than a hundred years old, which has relentlessly bombarded us with capitalist propaganda?
I think you are definitely on to something by bringing up this bipartisan control mechanism. Perhaps the best way to control some of these factors is by destroying the death duopoly in control. Perhaps by creating 1, if not 2, left wing parties that significantly weaken the control of the the 2 existing right wing parties. If neither party has control of the steering wheel, then maybe a revolution can be a way for workers to break the endless cycles of violence.
If we can change the hearts and minds of the common people, we will change the world. All this fuss about who owns what and global denomination is just a smokescreen for insecure idiots like Trump and company. Put the people's interests first and the rest should follow.