pearls on the shore

"The sudden entry of the unknown into daily life shakes up the reign of
enigmas. This is shown by all the cases of men and women who "go out of their
heads", as they say, in other words, who are no longer able to bring their
social identity and the perception they have of themselves into agreement. But
it is demonstrated still more clearly by what occurs in the course of revolts,
of riots, of ins...urrections.....Because, in the course of these social
tempests, individuals become more intelligent. Because the tricks of power
become banal when men and women cease to be so. Because insurgents, in the
community of unique ones, change their own lives and hence their understanding
of the world. Because amazement, which is the source of all authentic thought,
stands out above habit."ý"That these
moments of suspension of habit—and thus, of norms—are often only excesses of
fever of an organism that then returns to the normal temperature (the zero
degrees of survival), only serves to confirm the enigmatic relationship that
exists between intelligence and revolt. The arrogant wave of the latter leaves
its pearls on the shore for the former, then it retreats. But
where?"
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/diavolo-in-corpo/the-ferocious-jaws-of-habit