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** The Revolution of Everyday Life **


 * Opinion by Neil Schneeberg **

It doesn't take knowledge of Hegelian/Marxist dialectics or the writings of 'post-postmodernists' to know that the government hates fun. In fact, having fun is a quite revolutionary act. The thrill of fun is in direct contrast to the banal, lifeless goings of the government. Fun is something that is alive, you breathe it in when your heart is racing and when you finally acquire it, time: dominating, alienating, monotonous, time, finally disappears if only for a moment.

Look at a clock, because I know you can see one where you are right now. Watch the seconds go by and ask yourself if every second is the same. Every second is different from the next; I'm not talking about the clock now but your life. Every moment is quantitatively and qualitatively different from every other. The saying 'time flies when you're having fun' is not true; time is destroyed when you're having fun. Time is only useful in a society of domination; the accuracy of clocks in nations usually directly correlates to how industrialized they are. A period of time an hour long can feel like it is three, and one three hours long can feel like it is one. To the revolutionary time is not an accurate measure. All we can really know for sure is the sensations, the emotions we feel. If what we feel does not correspond to an objective measurement like time then what use is it? In a society ruled by deadlines and quotas time is necessary for its function: domination. During the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 many towns, especially in Catalonia began to practice libertarian communism. George Orwell in his nonfiction //Homage to Catalonia// describes how trains were either very early or very late in the liberated towns. For the first time in decades the Spanish people felt free. People living in the quasi-anarchy had no sense of time, they did not care about deadlines and had a disdain for work; the right sentiments to live the revolution of everyday life. We cannot look at revolution as just the overturning of the political apparatus, if meaningful change will ever occur, everyone must have their own personal revolution; there are only masters because there are slaves. Fight the system by having fun.