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Sami ([personal profile] sami) wrote in [personal profile] sqbr 2014-07-21 02:20 am (UTC)

I suspect that movie would piss me off no end.

There's no such thing as perfect activism, no such thing as the final achievement of the perfect society, and you have to maintain a balance between the ideals for which you strive and compromises with the status quo.

Because you're definitely not going to pull off a Perfect Revolution. Progress, like politics, is the art of the possible. And demonising the system you dislike is actually bad, because it's unrealistic, and people know that - people know it's not actually as bad as you're making out if you do that, and so they dismiss you as a crank or a loony, and also because if you do that you won't see the aspects of the system that work - because something has to work for it to BECOME the system.

And if you're wanting to fix it without just burning the world to the ground and hoping whoever's around to dig through the ashes builds something better on the ruins, you're going to have to alter the system by stages, and you can't prioritise if you say it's just all EEEEVIL.

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