The erotic and the revolution..

The revolution has become tedious and boring and it no longer provides the excitement and the rush. The revolution is now down to budgets, and indicators and project reports and to bank statements which are not being delivered and to people who are not doing the work they were never meant to be doing.

Instead of drafting emails with statements and letters to the editors and to people, the cyberspace.. once the place which birthed the revolution.. is now a place to quarrel and argue and to refer to contracts and to terms of reference.

The revolution has moved from the streets.. to offices in which some people want to sit in Executive Chairs behind Executive Desks and be called Executive Directors... Sir in some places.. the revolution for some is now an excellent opportunity for chairs and those desks and maybe a laptop to go with it.

Work which used to be done for free now has to be paid for.

The mad people who got together to say yes.. to kick off the revolution and to terrorise.. their madness once the fuel for the revolution, is now the catalyst for the destruction of the gains achieved as wars are fought over money, tasks, accountability for tasks. People who should be pushing ideas have to manage cheque books as the money flows into the revolution.

There are some who are suicidal because they cannot find work while others are being paid a lot of money to co-ordinate the revolution and do consultancies to understand the pathologies of those are oppressed. The work moves from dealing with the injustices faced by the oppressed to ensuring that project deadlines are met.


There is no longer any erotic in the revolution. The creativity, the spontaneity, the power has been lost. The revolution has become funded and it has been killed.