They say revolt is contagious. That’s right. I, as someone who lives in the middle-east, know that this is a fact. I am a student who lives in a city within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Luckily, and under God’s merciful blessings, the anarchy of revolt and uprisings occurring throughout countries surrounding the Kingdom has yet to infect the Kingdom itself. But this does not cancel-out the fact that revolt is indeed contagious; or the fact that whatever remains unaffected today, may not remain as pure tomorrow. 


I am an open-minded person, and I see these facts as how they should be seen, but what I do not see is what massive revolts would do. I’m a Filipino, and I would like to ask you, the reader to research a bit into my country’s history a few years back, when we had our own revolution.  It was dubbed a success. It was of course, as no bloodshed was recorded that day. But what counts isn’t how something happens; it’s how well it serves its purpose --- change. Change did not occur, no matter how idealistic people twist reality, it really does seem as if nothing has changed. I believe the phrase “The end justifies the means.” defines my statement in a simpler way.

I do not understand how people cry for freedom from a tyrant, unite in a spectacle of peace, but in taking time forward to a rough twenty years, see nothing change. Freedom in words and speech, and some minor adjustment to rights and the law, but that’s it. Freedom actually made my country worse than it was already twenty years ago.

That’s what these revolutionaries don’t get --- nothing will change. Revolution is in theory, a turn from something into the opposite, but that’s “theory”, in truth people rarely and that’s “rarely” put theory into practice. It’s a senseless argument slowly culminating into war. Let’s just use actual events as proof and for ease of explanation; why revolt for a “good change” in the country, then loot and burn house after the other, planting dread in other people.  This talk of revolution is just causing fear in innocent people, and leaving thousands of people homeless and without work without actually rendering results. 

As I see it, these revolutionaries and the failing government they’re fighting against are just kids in adult physique. For trivial information, Gaddafi led a coup d'état himself against King Idris I --- the previous leader of Libya. Now, Mubarak, Gaddafi, the revolutionaries, whoever, seem like they’re all the same. It’s just a matter of propaganda and lies and how effective they use it for their own purpose. It’s senseless and pointless. People are inciting chaos and forcing other people to carry the burden as well, just to see a single man give up his seat --- a seat some of them once supported him to have. Let’s face it --- the word “change” won’t change a thing. There’s no “power to keep” or “freedom from a tyrant”, there’s no truth to it. There isn’t even a rational thinking to it --- just the word “revolution”. People should just be happy with life; inciting revolt just causes more problems, for them and for other people. I ask you, my reader, what would happen if we displayed Gaddafi’s head on a pike --- would that change anything?

-by JJMJ-