Forty-some years ago, my friends and I talked about revolution
Then we'd smoke some herb, go to a drive-thru for some tacos, and listen to music or maybe watch re-runs on the tube
It was pleasant enough: we could feel morally superior to everybody else for our realization that the establishment sucked and for our completely nonviolent and totally uninvolved idealism
If you really want change, you have to be able to imagine, in practical and concrete ways, a path to the change you want. And you have to be able to stay informed about current conditions, so you can continually update your imagined path to change in a timely and realistic manner. It's a full-time thing: it requires a lot of highly-motivated well-organized people doing a lot of work for a very long time
You can't have long-term success just by finding the right leader to follow, because everybody has feet of clay
And major change always has a huge political component: the people who disagree with you are generally as smart as you are, and they can usually kick as hard as you can. If you can't even put your friends on the city council, you're not nearly well-organized enough to have a revolution
Revolutions are messy, drawn-out, chaotic things. People need water and sewer services. People need food and transportation. People need medical care. Things have to be very bad indeed for people to decide change is so important it's worth losing basic amenities for a while
It's easy to yammer about the need for revolution. And it's almost always a sign of laziness
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This is great. 
