OK, time for honestly. The PRIMARY function of this piece is try to convince the world (yes, the world!) that the human race is doomed to the degree we think politics OR revolution in any significant way "deals with the Beast". These are the core, twin illusions of social existence, because all either of them do is to "perpetuate" the Beast, and to paraphrase the words of ancient and wise Zen Master, “This is wiping off blood with blood.”
And even when politics marginally works (as it "may" be doing with Obama), it's still a game of the elites, since at the end of the next four years, it will be obvious that nothing has FUNDAMENTALLY changed in human Civilization. Not to overwork the analogy, but politics "at its' best" (about as rare as a unicorn) is still only putting band aids on terminal degenerative diseases.
This is what the mystic J. Krishnamurti called, "decorating your cage." So back to what to do, what to do? Hopefully a critical mass of human beings is getting very, very clear what NOT to do, i.e., politics or revolution, and if so, that's the biggest spiritual, intellectual, and existential step EVER taken in human social history.
If you're drowning, knowing you should NOT strangle the neck of the hero (or heroine) who is trying to save you, is salvation for both of you.
Perhaps it will help to see this dynamic of "now for something completely different" in a different context.
In the history of science and mathematics there are certain historical moments which stand out as beacons of genius. At the end of the 19th Century, much of physics was in a mess. We had laws about energy and very different laws about matter and it seemed like the twain would never meet. We also had contradictions galore about the "addition of velocities" and metaphysical assumptions about time and space. Probably most of all, we were basically stopped dead in our tracks about a post Faraday/Maxwell understanding of light. In short, a maddening mess.
And then in the very early 20th Century: Albert Einstein! Suddenly, almost miraculously, things began to make sense. However, the price was high since we had to sacrifice the pseudo absolutes of time and space (rather a time/space continuum -- which "bent" with mass). The speed of light rocketed to a place of honor, relative to which, yes, things were "relative". Long story, but the image that fits is that Einstein quantum jumped out of the common sense physical understanding box of the 19th Century. And he did it again a few years later with "General Relativity".
String theory, with its boggling multiple dimensions, may now be teetering on the edge of a similar quantum jump. Time will tell. But the key point is that the change from pre to post Einstein was RADICAL. It wasn't just reshuffling the deck; it was kicking over the card table and leaving the room.
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