Fear and Revolution

[unspeakablehorror]

I look at the future with anxiety because the world is in a bad place right now and I know that what is needed to bring about meaningful positive change is major disruption. But major disruption historically has rarely if ever been bloodless, and justice has always, always been incomplete.

And that doesn't make disruption any less necessary. It doesn't make allowing countless people to suffer and die under the status quo any less of an atrocity, any more justifiable a human sacrifice.

But even as I think more people should understand the necessity of revolution, I understand the fear of it. I don't think that is an unreasonable fear. It is a fear I share.

I just think that people often fear the status quo too little.