The notion of home has often provoked fantasies of revolution and fresh starts – the house of the future, the ideal home – but it remains a stubbornly conservative type.
For all the swagger and the willingness to "tell truth to power", he has little time for leftwing fantasies of revolution.
If we keep doing what we're doing, we are going to keep getting what we're getting, or worse...the fantasies of a revolution, well, revolutions aren't that romantic nor are they a Beatles song.
Neocons and strong-arm liberals have not lost the taste for bloodshed in faraway places of the fellow-travelling left, they have merely fastened on a different regime as the vehicle for their fantasies of world revolution.
Nationalist forces, which have always been carefully kept in check by the Kremlin, were let out of the bottle with the uprising in east Ukraine, where a number of the rebel commanders were doing the Kremlin's bidding but also harboured fantasies of bringing revolution to Russia.
He had all these fantasies of violent revolutions, and because of all this he identified with people like Gaddafi [who had also come from a poor, illiterate family].
When many of his compatriots toyed in the romantic playground of Maoist fantasy or Marxist revolution, BHL remained a loyal steward of the Enlightenment and staunch defender of liberal civilization.
I.e., a kind of revolution.
