Truth is, before this "revolution" shit took over, (the eternal revolution shit predates Star Wars by at least 200 years) Western Culture was about crucifying/blinding/burning at the stake the people who didn't believe the same God as you. Everyone tried to become Rome after it fell, and they enforced things at the tip of the sword.
As for American culture, it's about getting rich and telling everyone else to fuck off. Christianity in Europe developed as a religion that instituted charity, whereas American Christianity is all about wallowing in your wealth like you're the next best thing God created after breathable air, while telling the proles to go suck a fat one.
If this was "true" Western Culture, we'd be burning people at the stake for going to the wrong church.
Western culture (and to some extent, the rest of the world) is constantly in the pursuit of change and conflict. Perhaps this state of "revolution" is eternal and universal, depending on how broadly you define the word. The constant need to consider ideas and act against the grain is the opus of Humanity. Even with Christianity in mind, the first act committed by humanity was in revolt against its very creators. Time and time again it has been the unifying link between every era, be it a revolution of blood ("Revolution" as you envision conventionally) or a revolution of thought ("Revolution" as in to "move around an axis", with said "axis" being an idea or underpinning philosophy with which you can proffer different interpretations), the very foundation of all of humanity's development has been revolution.
Why "revolution" has become a dirty word is ultimately the fault of subversion — which some groups consider a virtue; consider how "Feminist Theory" (A critical theory, post-structuralist critique of how society treats women) completely supplanted the definition of "Feminist" (Women's rights advocates, who achieved all their aims by the 60s) which proffers concepts like
patriarchy, toxic masculinity, and the
"gender wage gap" , all the result of captured institutions redefining the word — and has subsequently become owned by the subverters, which is their grand aim.
“Traditional theory, which claims to be content with the way things are, serves to justify and perpetuate existing institutions; critical theory, however, is directed toward changing society and exposing its underlying mechanisms of domination.”
— Horkheimer, Traditional and Critical Theory, 1937
“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality... to define what is real.”
— Marcuse, The Aesthetic Dimension, 1977
“Facts are made up, fabricated: not being fictions, but rather networks.”
— Latour, Science in Action, 1987
“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class... The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it.”
— Marx, Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook, 1846
American culture, in the eyes of this humble Brit,
is revolution. It's the entire underpinning of how America came to be and thus the American identity, in which the pursuit of freedom and liberty
revolves.
Revolution, by those who have ideologically kidnapped it, mandate it be a violent affair committed with action and the ultimate intent to implement their Marxist derivative of choice (socialist, communist, anarchist — all of which involve impeding on individual rights and freedoms), when arguably an
American revolution is committed in the pursuit of liberation and freedom exclusively, not with an asterisk or the marred intent of silencing your opponents. Those who wish to do the opposite to said Americans, and whose actions both direct and indirect force the impediment of liberty and freedom on others, are in violation of what America
is and should thusly be removed or ignored utterly.
Western culture is progress by the strictest definition of the word. It is now being held back by subverters adhering to an antiquated ideology rooted and suited for 1850, that ultimately failed when it saw implementation outside of its time.
Edit: American Christianity saw similar subversion. The whole concept of Prosperity Theology is rooted in non-Christian "
spiritualism", a failed
actor-turned-pastor, and a charlatan who claimed he was
Cherokee for clout.
