The potter uses the revolving wheel to form the vessel. The vessel is empty of everything except human dreams. The wheel allows us to move by returning to the point of origin in a dynamic way.
I will conclude by redefining revolution, to go to the roots of its original meaning and how in returning to that primary concept, we can facilitate the reclaiming of our ancient paradigm of a society based on equality and consent of the governed (to use the words of the Declaration of Independence, a call for revolution), on distributed power and shared resources. Jefferson, like Thomas Paine, believed that that the natural wealth of the land, the sea, the mineral resources, etc., which were not built by anyone, therefore belonged to humanity communally.
In Agrarian Justice, Paine argued that those who exploit what belongs to all of us must pay for it, with the "rent" used to fund healthcare, education, road, etc. Paine, of course, was despised by the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution (a far different group than the Founding Fathers of the Revolution) because they set up a system of oligarchy run by the slave owners, the perfect model of the hierarchical system built on the master/slave paradigm.
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