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Or how a carrot pulls the donkey forward.
The word revolution means a new beginning, a clean break with the past. Yet as we all know, revolutions don’t always deliver; revolutions are often hijacked and their results can end up supporting some of us real well, but not society.
The first true revolution occurred when the revolving nature of Earth — spinning around its axis once a day and revolving around the sun once a year — replaced the idea that the Earth was flat. This change in perception was revolutionary.
Notice how the change in ideology revolved around a simple but fundamental aspect. Instead of seeing things in 2D, flat, we accepted that seeing things 3D is the accurate way, even when our actual environment still indicates that same flat Earth in our immediate surroundings. It is only with the larger overall setting that we accept the new truth. On our daily walks, we do not experience the curvature of the Earth.
The Earth revolving around the Sun was revolutionary and, ever since, any clean break with how we used to do or see things at the largest level is called a revolution.
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The American Revolution is the perfect example of changing an overall setup while the local reality remained the same. Farmers still had to farm, school teachers still had to educate their…
