Haitian Vodou is a deeply layered spiritual system that is not only a living religious tradition, but also a vehicle of cultural memory, communal governance, and political resistance.

Whether it’s a shaman in the jungle, a livestreamed binding spell against a president, or a 17-year-old with a phone and a sense of the sacred, the grammar of revolt is changing—but its roots remain old, and deep, and smoldering.

What was once the exclusive domain of nation-states with billion-dollar defense budgets has become democratized through a volatile combination of civilian innovation, commercial technology, and wartime necessity.

What distinguishes a revolution from a criminal enterprise? Is it ideology? Popular support? Historical timing? Or simply the ability to win and write the laws afterward?

The extinction rate exceeds natural background levels by orders of magnitude. Entire ecosystems have crossed irreversible thresholds. If this is not a mass extinction, then the term may have lost its meaning.