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Revolution to Spur Change
Does your life need a little revolution to overthrow the current mindset?
Today is November the 5th — Guy Fawkes Day. Though his intent to blow-up Parliament was not necessarily in the best interests of the many, aspects of it still serve, such as the inspiration for the popular (and frankly excellent) graphic novel and film V for Vendetta and the inspiration for certain modern-day revolutionaries.
Also known as Bonfire Day, the failure of the Gunpowder Plot is celebrated in England. I am a fan of this particular poem about this celebration:
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
In the movie V for Vendetta, the character V wears a Guy Fawkes mask and systematically eliminates the leaders of an awful, spiteful, ugly government (eerily not too dissimilar to way too many aspects of the current US government), culminating in the blowing-up of the Parliament building.
During the year that V executes his plot, the people, long cowed into accepting a leadership they know is awful, begins to wake up and see that they have accepted fascist leadership…
