There’s a quiet revolution forming. It’s all under the surface, slowly gathering momentum, but it’s there. Wherever I go I see small reflections of certain ideas, whispers of discontentment and disillusion… dissent.

A kid gets mercilessly picked on at school for not being good-looking or cool or rich enough, and brainwashed by the media that he’s worthless without these things, so he takes an arsenal of guns to school to shoot up the class. One American president is hounded out of office for having an affair, but another is worshipped like an emperor for sacrificing thousands of lives, Iraqi and American kids, for oil revenues – while preaching moral values at us. “News” stations have become nothing more than propaganda stations, showing us images that justify whatever our leaders tell us.

But a number of people see reality for what it is. The whispers are growing. New websites are springing up, dedicated to exposing all-pervasive myths for what they are, some attracting thousands of viewers in a single day. Eventually the whispers will become raised voices and then shouts.

49% of Americans see that Emperor Bush and Vice Emperor Cheney are dangerous fanatics obsessed with their own power, willing to lie to maintain their authority. Blair, the loyal minion, maintains power simply because the other political parties are even feebler than his. They all moan that only a minority even bother to vote now, but this heartens me – a small majority will no longer play ball with these wretched creatures.

They try to inspire us with nightmarish visions of terror, but more and more people see the politics of fear for the empty ploy that it is. In George Bush’s next speech, try counting how many times he uses the word “terrorist” or “Al Qaeda”. The figures may surprise you. Is Bin Laden the only reason he is in power?

We have business tycoons amassing billions in the name of some materialistic dream (mirage). I mean, really, how many cars or swimming pools can one person need? Such people are driven, never happy, because no amount of property or currency can provide one droplet of meaning to a human life. Compared to, say, the love that my good friends Saf and Perry have found together, all Donald Trump’s $billions amount to a speck of grey dust on a hair on the back of a single flea.

We may be a relative minority, but more and more of us see that the grasping competitive struggle to amass a fortune is based on emptiness and bullshit. How low could we have fallen if we fundamentally value a human being based on how much paper he has in the bank or what clothes he wears? Currency itself is an abstraction. Paper money, or even gold, has no intrinsic value (unless you want to burn money to keep warm). A cheese sandwich has more innate worth than a fat bar of gold.

Our whole culture is bent upon convincing us that accruing more possessions will make us happier and more worthy to call ourselves human beings; but that message is a lie, and utter nonsense. Once you have acquired a certain level of comfort – a roof over your head, food and meaningful human interaction – you actually need no more. In fact if you swallow the lie that “I won’t be happy until I get such-and-such” you will become increasingly unhappy, desperate and frustrated.

Ruthlessness and bottomless greed are rewarded by our current society, but still more people are waking up to the realisation that we must value human beings directly, with no thought to their material “worth” or their image. When this happens, we will all come to find what Saf and Perry have found. We will have a society based upon love, not shallowness, intolerance, or obsessive money-grubbing. Politicians and tycoons will no longer be our overlords and masters. We will treat each other with fundamental respect and dignity.

For a brief time in the 1960s and ‘70s, an experiment with these ideas kicked off. The Beetles sang “All you need is Love,” and people listened. Unfortunately, the movement championing these real values also became synonymous with drug-taking, substance abuse, and other wild acts – these were the birth-pangs and fumbling mistakes of a movement that hadn’t been fully thought out. However, such perceived “evils” gave the moral crusaders what ammunition they needed to crush the movement utterly. Since those heady times, “hippies”, “free love”, etc, have all been demonised as representing some kind of road to hell. So in the ‘80s everyone embraced a more realistic road to hell, championing the obsession with superficial values and Social Darwinism.

However, the world never entirely forgot what had happened in the ‘60s. Possibilities had been uncovered, and the Bible-thumpers could never quite bury the memory. Those who have long wanted a system based on love instead of war and greed simply stiffened their upper lips and waited for another chance.

I believe that the chance will come. Every empire in human history has crumbled; the current World Order will be no exception. Rag-tag barbarians brought down the mighty Roman Empire. Freethinkers may yet bring down this one. Fuck Bin Laden and fuck George Bush. Every major war or act of genocide in history has stemmed from religion or politics, but we are slowly stepping out of a great dark age and realising that both will become obsolete – when everyone learns to act out of love instead of greed, these forms of governance will have no further relevance. Racial and sexual bigotry will die. Even if it takes another thousand years, communism, theocratic fascism and corporate fascism will all die. Dissension towards this mess we’re in is bubbling under the surface, and the ideas of hope are spreading quickly.

You won’t see it on Fox News, but a revolution IS coming.

Steel yourself and be prepared for the war of ideas to come. Don’t take their shit lying down. Your voice has power - use it and play your part. If we don’t, future historians will look back on us all as spineless cowards and foolish weaklings. They, and their children, will have to live in whatever world we leave them. Fight on!