Is there no “System” you can imagine that is so bad and irredeemable that the correct thing to do is burn it to the ground and salt the ashes, and to utterly destroy every incrementalist running dog (that’s you) who stands in the way, preaching of reform?
Personally, I think piece-by-piece changes are almost always better than attempts to destroy all current infrastructure at once, for the same reason that I try to run my codebase (when programming literal computers) every couple minutes and make sure it still compiles, instead of writing hundreds of lines at once and hoping for the best.
There’s some nuance here: e.g. I hope Iran’s government is overthrown. But humanity has functional patterns different from current Iranian government that have been tried elsewhere, and functional culture among current Iranian dissidents that can help seed the new thing. So from my perspective this is compatible with piece-by-piece change in the sense I mean it.
That’ll do: you don’t believe this is evil behavior reflecting you being lazy, negligent, and unimaginative, and that you should try to build trust in the clerics and the Revolutionary Guard, and engage with them in good faith to improve the System instead of subverting the existing institutions for your political goals?
The “System” is made of people, not of things. When the revolutionaries’ rallying cry is “kill them all!”, and “them” is everyone who is not “us”, then they become a System as bad or worse than the one they are fighting.
Is there no “System” you can imagine that is so bad and irredeemable that the correct thing to do is burn it to the ground and salt the ashes, and to utterly destroy every incrementalist running dog (that’s you) who stands in the way, preaching of reform?
Personally, I think piece-by-piece changes are almost always better than attempts to destroy all current infrastructure at once, for the same reason that I try to run my codebase (when programming literal computers) every couple minutes and make sure it still compiles, instead of writing hundreds of lines at once and hoping for the best.
There’s some nuance here: e.g. I hope Iran’s government is overthrown. But humanity has functional patterns different from current Iranian government that have been tried elsewhere, and functional culture among current Iranian dissidents that can help seed the new thing. So from my perspective this is compatible with piece-by-piece change in the sense I mean it.
That’ll do: you don’t believe this is evil behavior reflecting you being lazy, negligent, and unimaginative, and that you should try to build trust in the clerics and the Revolutionary Guard, and engage with them in good faith to improve the System instead of subverting the existing institutions for your political goals?
Indeed; I do not believe that. Could you state where you’re going with that more explicitly?
The “System” is made of people, not of things. When the revolutionaries’ rallying cry is “kill them all!”, and “them” is everyone who is not “us”, then they become a System as bad or worse than the one they are fighting.