This wiki is for hashing out what we mean by Riot, Revolt, and Revolution. Please change it and/or comment below. Dont be shy.

Riot¶

• ripping your hair out and breaking the first thing that you see because deep down in your gut you are truly fed up.
• spontaneous, high energy, destructive, social upheaval often sparked from a single event or series of events that lays bare deep rooted social injustice and inequality -d.s.
• merriam-webster.com
  • public violence, tumult, or disorder
  • a violent public disorder; specifically : a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent

Revolt¶

• organizing to meet the crest of change as it breaks and reaches a critical level at which some process can suddenly start to occur that causes large amounts of wave energy to be dispersed into meaningful revolution.(as taken from the definition of a wave)
• organized decent that can take on multiple forms from non-compliance to armed resistance -d.s.
• merriam-webster.com
  • a renouncing of allegiance (as to a government or party); especially : a determined armed uprising
  • a movement or expression of vigorous dissent

Revolution¶

• A major shift in societal assumptions, a paradigm shift (i.e., wake the fuck up people it’s time to recognize that the world is round and moves a lot.)
• A fundamental reordering of social and political power structures. Revolution
• merriam-webster.com
  • a sudden, radical, or complete change
  • a fundamental change in political organization; especially : the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed ** activity or movement designed to effect fundamental changes in the socioeconomic situation
  • a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something : a change of paradigm

Describing The Spectrum (Form Riot to Revolt to Revolution)¶