Yet the same forces can mislead. Walter Benjamin warned that the “aestheticization of politics” (1936) can turn spectacle into anesthesia; Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) reminds us that action requires truth-telling among equals, not just striking images. The remedy is integrity: let beauty carry accuracy, memory, and solidarity. When we “scatter bold colors” in our routines—with honest symbols, invitational design, and communal authorship—we make art that does not mask struggle but gives it form. Thus the revolution looks like art because it is crafted with care, and it endures because its beauty tells the truth. [...]
