_{^{A revolution is needed. Change must happen.}} America-as-it-is is no longer sustainable for anyone but the filthy rich. We’ve fallen victim to the _sociopath to power. We’ve adopted a system that values _product over ^process, _power over ^empathy, _greed over ^sharing, _fear over ^love. Those who most mindlessly imbibe the opiate of hegemony end up perpetuating its inhuman lurch by climbing the ladder to feed the demon. _{And what rough beast indeed…}

But there’s that old saying about not becoming the monster you despise. Stare into the abyss all you want. Don’t just look at it… scream into it. But don’t become the monster.

_{^{A revolution is needed. Change must happen.}} But it must be bloodless. Bloody revolutions have never solved anything. Civil wars (tell me one bloody war that’s been civil…), revolutions, blood for shared fictions… Look at every revolution in history including that of the United States. Did peace follow? If so, for how long? The rockets barely stopped glaring over the ramparts before we were killing each other again over the ability to subjugate our brothers and sisters in one of the most gruesomely inhuman evils committed. But as way led onto way, the fissures and grievances widened and the same shadow slouches toward Washington to be born.

A CEO was gunned down in cold blood. This is inexcusable. Humans must be held accountable as humans. Killing a man _{who is nothing more than a} ^{could be so much more than a} shiny cog in a despicable system solves nothing. No chance for accountability. No chance for redemption. Dead.

Isn’t that what we’re fighting against? The heartless killing of humans? Some do it with a silencer-muzzled gun, some with a fountain pen, some sitting at the head of a boardroom table in front of a PowerPoint slide of actuarial tables. It was Colonel Mustard in the parlor with the lead pipe, it was a hooded assassin in midtown Manhattan with a gun, it was a CEO with an e-signature on a Memorandum of Understanding. _{Incidentally the supreme court agreed with the idea that corporations are people and thus are allowed to be treated as people. Does that mean when a corporation like an insurer has policies that kill people they are allowed to be prosecuted and held accountable? How do you sort through that banality of evil? Hannah Arendt, we need you now more than ever.}

Murderers are murderers. It’s our job as humans to remind them of the fact that they are _humans as well. Make them face their actions and LIVE with what they’ve wrought. Accountability. A bullet on a sidewalk is cheap and cowardly.

May the _{rest of the} revolution be bloodless.

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