by But whatever tactics are ultimately pursued, it’s key to have an ideological platform underlying the revolution. You can’t just be “against” the current order; you need to stand “for” a constructive vision or set of principles for doing things better. As Buckminster Fuller said: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Your platform sets the north star that your movement will organize behind and orient itself against. Distill your message into a small number of clear, big principles (“Equal treatment under the law”, “Govern within our means”, and “Main Street over Wall Street” are a few good ones to consider) and make sure everybody rallying to your banner knows what they are.
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But whatever tactics are ultimately pursued, it’s key to have an ideological platform underlying the revolution. You can’t just be “against” the current order; you need to stand “for” a constructive vision or set of principles for doing things better.
As Buckminster Fuller said:
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”Your platform sets the north star that your movement will organize behind and orient itself against. Distill your message into a small number of clear, big principles (“Equal treatment under the law”, “Govern within our means”, and “Main Street over Wall Street” are a few good ones to consider) and make sure everybody rallying to your banner knows what they are.
I would agree with this. The rest of the article sounds good but count me skeptical. But it is worth reading anyway.Should you indeed be successful in bringing the existing power brokers to the negotiating table, or replacing them completely in the case of extreme revolution, these principles will determine your resulting programs and policies. Be sure to put as much effort into clarifying these up front as you do into your protest of the current regime.
Watching the Occupy protests a decade ago and now this one that so far lacks a name, I had then and have again a sense of déjà vu, as though I sat through this movie already back in the day of the Vietnam antiwar protests. In the final analysis after the fact, many if not most of us (those that didn't just give up) realized that the system was not going to change and the only pragmatic solution was to develop a counterculture along with an underground economy.
That did happen and while a lot of it got coopted — street music almost right away — the result was that the movement did eventually transform the culture but hardly sufficiently to resolve the underlying issues. The change was only superficial socio-economically and politically.
The conclusion I came to then was that if the protest leadership was successful in regime change, which, of course, was preposterous, the result would not have been much different since most were totally unqualified to create and manage a better system. John Kerry, for instance, became a cog in the system.
So far, I don’t see that changing. There is no new vision for America that could reasonably get from here to there. There is no new vision and no model based on it.
I have observed over the years that those objecting to the system as good at diagnosing what is wrong with it, but they are quite bad at etiology and treatment, that is, identifying causes and substituting workable solutions.
This is not a trivial problem. It's probably the knottiest problem facing the world today.
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