Yet from the beginning, art demanded transformation.
As in Egypt, the movement for democracy pushes up against and demands transformation of the "institutions of democracy".
Demands for change, demands for transformation, demands for a return to human values are fast becoming the foremost demands of the nations of the world.
"We demand radical transformation to heal the long history of systemic racism so that all Americans have the equal right to live and pursue happiness," Keys says at the end of the video, in a call to action.
How many casualties, destroyed communities, flooded coastlands, diminished snow packs feeding key Asian rivers, drought-ridden agricultural belts and new disease vectors, will it take to move a more organized American public to demand a transformation of US energy policy?
But giving cell phones Internet capability would demand their transformation into minicomputers, and that would require an operating system.
The Egyptian people are demanding wholesale transformation, not window dressing.
Meanwhile, continued demands for transformation and efficiency lead the Office for Budget Responsibility to suggest total redundancies will hit 710,000 by 2017.
