Fascinating how similar those words really are ..just an R of a difference!!
In the late sixties and seventies, as a student, the big thing was to 'join the revolution' and there was a great sense of rebelling against the status quo. And on hindsight, perhaps that was part of reason for the short lived dream of that era. It was as much focussed on dissing the past, as on building a new future. And the word, revolution also means something going round and round, like the revolution of a wheel.
In truth, revolutions in the past have rarely worked and have often simply been a temporary bloodpath followed by more of the same. For example, Napoleon after the French Revolution declaring himself emperor!!
Evolution on the other hand, has quite a different connotation....the root of the
word means an unrolling or opening or in the case of a gas, a setting free ...the implication being that evolution is unlocking an inherent design possibility into reality. And of course it represents a real development leap into the future, not simply more of what has been.
So maybe the phrase for our time today in 2010, is
Join the Evolution ! .
Question to ponder is what can free that latent genetic potential in us?
PS For some interesting views on evolution, have a look at the John Edge articles on evolution on www.templatesforchange.com website - well worth a read!
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