# Is The Fourth Revolution Being Portrayed Realistically?

I've been reading "Freedom on my Mind," a book of essays focusing on the black experience in America.

One piece in particular called "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," by Gil Scott-Heron, describes how I am experiencing this fourth revolution at times.

Programmers are changing the world and the general public is watching it from the media's point of view.

> You will not be able to stay home, brother  
> You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out  
> You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and  
> Skip out for beer during commercials  
> Because the revolution will not be televised
> 
> The revolution will not be televised  
> The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox  
> In four parts without commercial interruptions  
> The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon  
> Blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell  
> General Abrams and Spiro Agnew  
> To eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary  
> The revolution will not be televised
> 
> The revolution will not be brought to you by the  
> Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star  
> Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia  
> The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal  
> The revolution will not get rid of the nubs  
> The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner  
> Because the revolution will not be televised, brother
> 
> There will be no pictures of you and Willie May  
> Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run  
> Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance  
> NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32  
> Or report from 29 districts  
> The revolution will not be televised
> 
> There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down  
> Brothers on the instant replay  
> There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down  
> Brothers on the instant replay
> 
> There will be no pictures of Whitney Young  
> Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process  
> There will be no slow motion or still lifes of Roy Wilkens  
> Strolling through Watts in a red, black and green  
> Liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving  
> For just the proper occasion
> 
> Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction  
> Will no longer be so damned relevant  
> And women will not care if Dick finally got down with Jane  
> On "Search for Tomorrow" because black people  
> Will be in the street looking for a brighter day  
> The revolution will not be televised
> 
> There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news  
> And no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists  
> And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose  
> The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb  
> Or Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell  
> Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink or the Rare Earth  
> The revolution will not be televised
> 
> The revolution will not be right back  
> After a message about a white tornado, white lightning or white people  
> You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom  
> The tiger in your tank or the giant in your toilet bowl  
> The revolution will not go better with Coke  
> The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath  
> The revolution will put you in the driver's seat
> 
> The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised  
> Will not be televised, will not be televised  
> The revolution will be no re-run, brothers  
> The revolution will be live
> 
> Source: [Musixmatch](https://www.musixmatch.com/)
> 
> Songwriters: Gil Scott-heron
> 
> The Revolution Will Not Be Televised lyrics © Bienstock Publishing Company

with these words, I bid you...

Good night