More possibilities exist than can fit into our expectations. They exceed our needs without meeting them. It is these moments of metamorphosis which keep the engine of history turning.
Revolutions are moments for breathing new life into the course of events.
This is interesting to the heretics, but does not impress them. Their fascination is valid at the moment of the event itself, when an extrahistorical space opens and demands exploration. Suddenly you're offered the chance to become someone different from who you've always been. Consciousness-expanding substances can serve as an introduction to this space experience, or be used to enhance it. It's no accident that so much drinking, smoking, snorting and gulping goes on in movement circles.