Resistance is a part of being human (although others may not agree):
– The refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by argument, action or force; the action of opposing, withstanding or striving against
Resistance is a physical thing (even if unseen or unobserved):
– The impeding, slowing or stopping effect exerted by one material thing on another
– The degree to which a substance or device hinders or prevents the flow of electricity through it
Resistance may be either of those types:
– The ability not to be affected by something, especially adversely
Resistance is friction. Friction cannot be peace.
Resistance is struggle. My struggle, your struggle, and also theirs.
Resistance is reaction, defined against an Other.
Resistance is a noun, imbued with verbs.
Resistance would connive in thought-crime; it would not enjoy its own enslavement.
Resistance does not unfurl like an untethered kite in the breeze.
Resistance increases with pressure; until overcome. Or perhaps balanced; cancelled out…
If overcome, was it invalid? Does it require success, to be entitled to the name Resistance?
Or does the pressure validate it, as if that called it into life?
Resistance is durability; possibly undone by the spark of its creation…
Resistance is not an outcome
In a world of stasis, resistance would have become anachronistic. Or pervasive.
Resistance holds steady.
Resistance may trigger mutation.
Resistenz ist der Widerstand und auch die Beständigkeit.
Language is irrelevant.
Resistance sang. Resistance growled.
Resistance scraped and scratched.
Resistance hovered in memory, shifting shape.
Resistance exists as opposition, a process:
– perhaps stubbornly, loyally opposing change (which increases with age)…
/ change is more certain than taxes, albeit unpredictable, and precedes death /
– or subverting an establishment, conferring a certain louche glamour / or a pleasing radical liberalism / or a feisty activist populism…
Could you choose between these views?
If so, which would you prefer?
Could you imagine why?
Would you understand the Other?
Maintain the Advance! 