How to recognise and deal with an activist
The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution Great line, i wont go into the deep history of who said it and why, because that's not what this (hopefully) short blog is about. But it does chime an important bell. The issue they raise is never the important thing. Be it men oppressing women, whites oppressing blacks etc. What the issue is really about, is bringing about a revolution, a movement that would tear down something (sometimes an entire society) to enable you to build a new one in its place. Unfortunately it doesn't work. Stalin tried that in Russia, Mao tried it in China. Hitler and Mussolini tried it in Germany and Italy. The French had 9 goes before getting something workable. And the good old Brits tried it once, then decided it really is a bad idea. In order to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs (people will die) but, the omelette never actually gets made. What we find is, an ugly mess of scrambled eggs. Meet the new regime, very much...