If you listen carefully to the celebrating voices, those of the rich and powerful in their corporate offices and government buildings, you can pick up a nervous undertone. If you watch the policy-makers closely, you may notice that the smiles are often thin and the hands that hold champagne glasses sometimes twitch involuntarily.
If you listen even more carefully, you can discover why. In the background, you can hear another set of voices - those from below - far, far more numerous. These are voices the powerful do not want to hear, but they are having a harder and harder time ignoring them.
Some of the voices are quiet and determined, talking together in bare tenements. Some are singing and reciting poetry in the plazas, or stirring young hearts with old tales deep in the forests.
Some are discussing, planning their future, inventing lines or chanting in the streets.
All are talking about revolution, whether they use that term or not.
-- Harry Cleaver
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