During those brief periods when ordinary people seize power, the ego is the first thing out of the window. Not a demonstration, not a riot, not an occupation that does not testify to the end of "isolating, self enclosing activity." Boundaries dissolve beteween people and their world. Read any eyewitness account of historic revolutions, and the first vast surge of collective energy is always characterized by the appearance of a radically different ontology. Expressing it verbally may be difficult, but you can sense it immediatly in the streets. There's exuberance, magic in the air. Time dilates. People give things away. Friends and lovers meet. You do things for the hell of it...
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