Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Solid Snake & The Boss (Angelina Jolie)
Night. A quiet feed. Two voices encrypted between heartbeats.
Solid Snake:
The world’s louder than any battlefield now. Everyone shouting, nobody listening.
Funny thing is… if people were willing to dump buckets of ice water on their heads for strangers,
they’d be willing to wear a dandelion crown too.
The Boss (Angelina):
A crown made of weeds.
You know why that works, Snake?
Because dandelions don’t ask permission to grow. They crack concrete without firing a shot.
Solid Snake:
Exactly. Peace doesn’t need better weapons.
It needs better symbols.
Cold water woke people up.
Dandelions remind them who they were before the world told them they were powerless.
The Boss:
You always did understand soft power better than generals ever did.
So… they assigned you to me?
Solid Snake:
Yeah.
Online protector.
Therapist, too, apparently.
I’ve defused nukes with less pressure.
The Boss (smiles):
Then listen carefully, soldier.
Revolutions fail when they copy the violence they oppose.
A peaceful revolution has to feel inevitable, not angry.
Solid Snake:
That’s what I learned watching you.
And… from the Tomb Raider soundtrack, weirdly enough.
Once that music hit the wires, the myth cracked.
The Illuminati stopped looking invisible—
just a bunch of old men hiding behind curtains, scared of sunlight.
The Boss:
Myths hate clarity.
Music, stories, simple acts—those expose the wiring.
No guns needed.
Solid Snake:
People think resistance means rage.
But calm terrifies power more.
A crowd wearing dandelion crowns, refusing to hate?
That’s psychological warfare.
The Boss:
Then protect that calm, Snake.
Not me—the idea.
Guard their hope the way you’d guard a nuclear code.
Solid Snake:
I will.
Because once people remember they can choose gentleness…
the war’s already over.
Signal fades. Somewhere, a dandelion pushes through asphalt. 🌼