If last time’s violence was so great, why did we still get this time? And every other time before that where violence bought a reprieve during which evil was given every advantage to regain what it lost and more? It has never solved anything for longer than a generation, and even then deals were being made in secret to preserve the evil, by the very champions of “good”.
There is no system you can set up that will not eventually become corrupt or compromised. Even the word “revolution” suggests its cyclical nature. It must periodically happen.
No solution is permanent. And violence isn’t technically the fix either.
The problem is you can’t solve certain problems from within the broken system. It’s possible to go outside the system but without violence but it’s rare. The violence is what enables outside system fixes to be possible and those have been of varied quality.
It’s not what we do when we’re violent, it’s what we do immediately afterwards that matters.
Nonviolence often just means you don’t get to make any meaningful changes at all, because they aren’t going to just let you vote them out of power and into to jail.
Because people stopped doing violence and said “violence is wrong, we can resolve the system through the system” except the system was captured by the rulers.
If last time’s violence was so great, why did we still get this time? And every other time before that where violence bought a reprieve during which evil was given every advantage to regain what it lost and more? It has never solved anything for longer than a generation, and even then deals were being made in secret to preserve the evil, by the very champions of “good”.
There is no system you can set up that will not eventually become corrupt or compromised. Even the word “revolution” suggests its cyclical nature. It must periodically happen.
No solution is permanent. And violence isn’t technically the fix either.
The problem is you can’t solve certain problems from within the broken system. It’s possible to go outside the system but without violence but it’s rare. The violence is what enables outside system fixes to be possible and those have been of varied quality.
It’s not what we do when we’re violent, it’s what we do immediately afterwards that matters.
Nonviolence often just means you don’t get to make any meaningful changes at all, because they aren’t going to just let you vote them out of power and into to jail.
Because people stopped doing violence and said “violence is wrong, we can resolve the system through the system” except the system was captured by the rulers.
Because people got tricked into thinking they could vote things better.
But first they got tricked into thinking violence would get them to that point. Both failed to Solve The Problem.