Young people, perish the thought of revolution because it's an impossibility.

What makes 'Revolution' an impossibility?
1. Revolution, being a going or returning to a begining, takes the concept of 'time' in too circular a fashion. But time isn't circular in itself. Even the seasons are a chance occurrence repeated over and over but so precariously.

2. Revolution, in attempting to destroy the old order, turns against itself because even when revolutionary rhetoric is against the status quo, the words, the signs used have inherited the status quo's characteristics. A Revolution requires a semiotic blank; but this isn't a possible state.

Napoleone is an example of Revolution being taken to its logical conclusion. In failing to grasp the promise of Revolution, the French, and the holy cousins sacrificed their son on the altar of order.

The American Revolution failed when they joined the second world war.

What of the Cuban Revolution? It too must fall. A global connection and system is inimical to them. Obama struck Cuba a blow by easing hostility. There's no point of fighting the Cubans. That's why even the North Koreans need to impose sanctions on themselves.

So even here in Kenya we must not fantasize of revolutionary change. Instead we must learn to work with the realities we have to create new ones.

For example, we must not rely on an anti-corruption agency to deal with corruption, but we may need to form anti-corruption networks that can counter corruption networks.

Reliance on agencies is a fallacy that escalates Revolutionary fantasies, while at the same time, and paradoxically, these agencies gain more power while citizens lose their own power.

And @maka despairs, and alma and the rest. And that's what the system of the agencies wants!

Physics can now allow us to understand the wave particle nature of matter, and how these wave particals interact with each other. For example, how is it possible for particles to exhibit say, Pauli exclusion?

A simple answer would be that each quantum state is a sign for other particles. That is, a wave particle must always be a superposition of possibilities. A superposition of signs then can allow a universal sign system that then can allow something like, 'quantum tunneling' where a wave particle can change position without displacement.

So if everything is connected to the other via a sign system, and that each wave particle is a superposition of possibilities then events will tend to happens in probability clusters or 'clouds'.

If one persists within a probability cloud for long enough, he might ascribe permanence to his experience and may even try to create an equation or law, like seasonality.

But an enlightened model would perceive such predictability as a probable event by itself and would avoid putting too much trust on the laws that appear to be verified.

Revolution depends on the law that for example planetary motion is such that the planet will move around and start again from a hypothetical position.

This physical model is now outdated. With events like 'emergence' there are many 'things' or 'states' that can't go back where they started and retain their present states.

That is, a sign will always have a context that supports and validates it. And that context must always imply the opposition of the sign.

Hence Revolution is a concequence of being a reactionary. Revolution can't, by virtue of its nature, create.

I concur.

Well done Tycho. It seems like you are finally getting it. Now if only you had arrived at this reasoning so many months back....

But of course there is a limit to which quantum mechanical principles can explain something as messy as politics.

For starters, Quantum Mechanics is a body of math models, and mathematics is a very precise business. Only parallels are possible but one can't model the other and vice versa.

Politics...is the sum, or aggregation, or a crosscut of life-forces; Our current science does not understand life force, it can't quantify or isolate it, though it has identified constituent physical processes or elements (like quantum mechanics) which if they stop or go wrong on a big enough scale, the life force of the entity ceases to exist. A biological body can be firing, metabolism, neural activity, but there is no life force ..if life is extinct there is no politics. See? Till we understand this, many meta physical questions will be elusive to answer.