There Will Never Be a Revolution in America | Shahid Bolsen

Oh, there's never there's never gonna be a a revolution in The United States. There's never gonna be a civil war. That's a fantasy that a lot of people have. It's never gonna happen. How do I know?

Just turn on the radio. Just turn on the television. Go watch movies. Turn on Netflix. See, there's a chemistry to resistance, to revolution, and so on.

Because look, what are we actually talking about with resistance? Well, what is resistance? It's a reaction. A revolution is a reaction, and there's a chemistry to that. A chemistry that determines what the reaction will be, Whether the reaction will be combustion or reduction.

You know, if it's going to be flammable or not, if it's going to be explosive or not, whether the reaction generates heat or cold or what have you. You know, in in America you may have some elements that would normally be explosive when they're mixed, but other elements are in that mixture that cause the opposite reaction. So you have those elements in in America for revolution, you have the elements for civil war, But you have too many other elements that are there to ensure that the mixture remains stable. I mean, you have conditions in America that if those same conditions existed elsewhere that society would erupt. But you're not gonna have any eruption in America except a controlled explosion, you know, like when the police find a bomb, discover a bomb and detonate it themselves.

That's the only kind of explosion that you're ever gonna have in The United States at this point. And like I said, all you have to do is turn on the radio to know this. All you have to do is look at their popular media to know this. Because a people capable of revolution has to be a people capable first of imagination. They have to be creative people.

In order to have a revolution you have to have independent thought. You have to have independent thinkers. People who can't think for themselves are never gonna revolt. You can't have mental homogeneity across the society where that homogeneity is overseen and imposed by the power structure. And ever expect for that society to rise up against the power structure.

And nothing illustrates the absence of imagination, absence of creativity, the absence of independent thought than your popular media. A society without real art is a society incapable of revolution, and your art is vapid and it enforces vapidness. That's the relationship between art and society. It reflects and it affects. It expresses how you feel and it tells you how to feel.

And you have become in America a people with no artistic language, no vocabulary. You're deprived of even what art is supposed to be for you. More and more of your words are being removed from your artistic lexicon with every passing day. Every day your music gets more formulaic, your films get more repetitive, your literature gets more simplistic to the point that an AI computer program can produce your songs, produce your scripts and your books. Your creative lexicon is shrinking until you're like a toddler who has no words to identify or to articulate or to understand or to express what he's feeling.

What he wants, what he's afraid of, what he's happy about, what he's sad about, so on and so on. You're deprived of the language of human complexity. Because look, take music. Now, as Muslims we have our own views about music. But the fact is it's a major factor in the culture of the West.

Well, two or three people write the majority of the top 40 songs in America. The same chord progressions, the same auto tuned vocals, the same repetitive hooks get recycled over and over and over again. Pop music today is not meant to express anything authentic, anything real. It's meant to be an earworm designed to be addictive, to be used in TikTok videos, to go viral. It's a product not an art form.

It's assembly line manufacturing for maximum profitization. Turning out the same formulas musically that sold well in the past. Manipulating predictable and shallow emotional responses through a calculated process. That's not art, that's business. And it's draining your society, it's disconnecting your society, it's dehumanizing your society and it's programming your society.

They're emptying the pockets of your imagination, the pockets of your creativity, of your authenticity, and they're leaving you with nothing but a few counterfeit coins which you can use, you know, to buy slogans out of the company vending machine. And you'll have to suffice with that as your only form of expression, like buying a bag of empty calories chips or something during your lunch break, and that's supposed to be your nutrition. Listening to this sort of ear candy is just like subsisting on a bag of chips from the snack machine. Your soul is malnourished, Your mind is malnourished. And look at your films, every film today is a pastiche, a remake, a reboot, a reimagining of something that was made already decades ago in the past.

No originality, no ideas, no exploration of the human condition. Movie studios are an assembly line manufacturing spectacle without substance, and even the elements of the spectacle have been made before. They shouldn't even call them production studios, they should be called reproduction studios. And again, this reflects and it affects the society. Art is being weaponized, is being instrumentalized, utilized to hypnotize, sterilize, and neutralize the population.

They're controlling your emotions. They're controlling your thoughts, your understanding, your perception, how you interact with the world. They don't want a single thought to be in your head that they didn't put there. You understand? They want your brain to be numb.

They want your brain to be barren, frigid, incapable of producing anything itself. Entertainers in the West aren't providers of moments of happiness and relief for the masses. They are the equivalent of anesthetists for Joseph Mengulla. They wanna put you in an induced coma. You are just as incapable of revolution in America as a man who's in a coma is incapable of riding a motorcycle.

There's never been a totalitarian society in history that had more control over their population than the system of America, the system in America has over its people. And there's never been a people less capable of resisting or revolting against totalitarian control and oppression than the American people of today. They have disarmed you. I'm not talking about your guns. You've got your guns, but if they were scared of your guns at all, they wouldn't let you have them.

So stop talking about your useless guns. Giving you guns is like giving a baby a hammer and nails and expecting him to build a house with it. You won't do anything with those weapons except point them at whoever they program you to point them at. And if they thought for a second, that you might actually point those guns in the right direction, well, they'd take them from you so fast it'd make your head spin. No.

You've been disarmed mentally. You've been disarmed intellectually. You've been disarmed psychologically, emotionally, and culturally. So you have a top down culture in America, you understand, not an organic from the ground up culture. Your culture is controlled from the top down.

Think about that. Stop and reflect on that. Everything that represents cultural expression is a business. It's branded. It's a commodity.

It's, created. It's crafted. It's molded. It's marketed and sold by corporations. Your feudal lords, your aristocracy, your oligarchs, the shareholding class dictates to you what your culture is.

The rich write your songs. The rich tell you stories in films and television. The rich publish your books. The rich design your fashions. The rich decide what the news will be, what will be reported and what won't be reported.

The rich decide what your opinions will be. They even decide what dissent will be. You understand? Yes. Even dissent is prepackaged for you.

There's an official and accepted pro position and an official and accepted anti position. Every aspect of your culture is micromanaged by billionaires. And understand, this top down cultural dictation is itself a natural development. That is organic in its own way because western culture has always been feudalism. But the extent of control is what has evolved.

That's what's changed. The fundamental culture was always there. It was always the same. What has grown and developed is the amount of control, the intensity and the comprehensiveness of the domination and of the pacification of the population. One of the greatest tricks of modern power is that it manufactured its own opposition.

You are literally told what the dissenting opinion is or is supposed to be. You're given two sides to choose from, but both sides ultimately serve the same system. That's why elections change nothing. Why political debates are just theater. Why every controversy is just another episode in an endless scripted spectacle.

People believe that they're engaging in resistance when in reality they're simply playing their assigned roles in a pre approved narrative. The system does not suppress opposition, it creates opposition and controls opposition and ensures that that opposition will remain harmless. The range of acceptable thought in the society is narrow by design, obviously. You can question war for example, but only within a a a a framework that that's provided for you. You can critique capitalism but only in ways that don't actually challenge corporate control, you know, with an anti capitalist t shirt or something that you buy on brand.

You can be outraged by corruption but only if you focus on a few bad apples while leaving the structure intact. But if you step outside of the boundaries of this acceptable discourse, this discourse that is mandated by billionaires, you'll be ignored or you'll be maligned or you'll be dismissed or algorithmically exiled. Now I'm saying all of this because, you know, people constantly ask, what are we supposed to do? What can we do? What do you suggest?

What can we do about injustice? What can we do about corruption? What can we do about all the suffering and and and the violation of our rights and so forth? And every time the expectation is the same. They want some simple immediate answer because that's their programming.

They want some kind of an action that they can take right now. But this approach is fundamentally flawed because it treats only the symptoms rather than addressing the underlying disease. But the truth is the crisis is not just one of injustice, it's a crisis of culture. The problem isn't simply oppression, it's a deeply entrenched control system that has shaped the entire psyche of society. Injustice, corruption, oppression and what have you, that they they don't exist in a vacuum.

They're manifestations of a broken cultural foundation. Yet instead of recognizing this people want quick fixes, temporary relief instead of real solutions. It's like a man who's suffering from chronic pain, you know, his body is breaking down because his own lifestyle is destroying him. But rather than trying to adopt healthier habits, changing his diet and so forth, trying to put some effort into actually healing, he just wants something that will numb the pain, not something that will actually fix the problem, fix his actual health. And after time he'll just become more and more dependent on stronger and stronger pain killers until he can't even function without them, While the underlying illness continues to just get worse.

This is the state of modern society in the West in America. People don't really want justice, want relief. They don't seek truth, they seek comfort. They don't desire real change, they want convenience and as a result they remain in a cycle, protests, elections, social media outrage, repeating the same pattern over and over and over expecting different results but nothing changes because they're treating the symptoms not the cause. And like I said, culture creates art and art creates culture.

So look at the art that your culture creates and look at the culture that your art is creating. Art has been commercialized. Art is commercialized. Music is sterilized. Culture has been pacified.

You know, where are the cultural and artistic voices that shaped the system? They don't exist in any meaningful way in America. They've been bought or they've been co opted. Instead of challenging the status quo, artists are, you know, performing at elite galas. Instead of inspiring some sort of revolutionary movement, they're selling products.

They don't question power, they serve power. That's why there'll never be a revolution in America. This is why even the smallest acts of resistance in modern America seem hollow, feel hollow, are hollow. Because they give the illusion of activism without requiring any sacrifice or effort. Opposition is fashion.

Activism has been turned into a product. It's a social currency, a momentary trend, and then when it fades it's replaced by whatever the next cause will be that will capture the public's fleeting attention. The entire society has been engineered for distraction. Entertainment is relentless. Everything is gamified, everything is turned into a spectacle, Everything is designed to keep people from ever, pausing to reflect, pausing to think and to question.

And like I said, even if they had a moment to pause, they don't even have, the intellectual, psychological, artistic or cultural language to even articulate their thoughts. You only have the words that the power structure gives you for understanding what they're doing to you. In this environment, how can there ever be a revolution? How's that even possible? If you are people who are addicted to instant gratification, how can they sustain long term struggle?

A society that's conditioned to seek pleasure above all else, comfort above all else is never gonna choose hardship even if that hardship is necessary for justice. The population has been trained not to endure but to escape. I said you've been trained to escape not to endure. You've been trained. You've been programmed to be serfs.

That's what you were and that's what you are, serfs and slaves. Only now escape doesn't actually mean escaping the plantation or the manor or the tenant land. It means just forgetting where you are and what you are. Escape means distraction. It means not even knowing the words to understand that you are a serf or a slave.

It means that the songs you sing, the stories you tell, and even the descent or the opposition that you express are all actually just methods of reinforcing your subject status. And in America, even the dream of liberation isn't really about liberation. The culture and the system created by the culture and the art created by the culture have made the dream not about liberation from oppression but a dream about becoming the oppressor. That's the American dream. It's a cruel society, it's a cruel system because it's a cruel culture.

So like I say, you want short term symptom treatment not long term cure of the disease because the only kind of revolution that you really need in America is a cultural revolution. America doesn't need cosmetic surgery, it needs brain surgery, it needs heart surgery. You don't need a pacemaker, you need a transplant And unless and until you actually change your culture, the only way that you'll change your system is by changing it to become worse.