Lessons from Revolution and Dictatorships: Why Not to Play Truant

Why not play truant? After all, Latin is a dead language and apples can fall off trees without our help. Oh, and how on earth can a number go on forever?

Extreme world events not only shape our world and perspectives, but the trends which arise reveal the key components of human motivation - motivation to obey, or to act. Funnily enough, the components of these opposite desires are more similar than we may think.

Firstly, we will go back to Russia in 1905, where workers were beginning to demand change - a…