- 24 Nov 2018 02:35
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A couple quick Examples would be Gandhi, MLK, and Mandela. You seem to dismiss Gandhi as having no effect because some people dismissed his effectiveness. This is belied by those who copied him. You don’t copy failures.
Governments are very careful to create a ‘reason for the public’ to justify their violence. Any violent act will serve to mobilize the people to war. How do you do this if there are no violent acts? You don’t get your people to kill others unless they see a threat.
It all comes down to real change requires a change in ourselves. Changing our thinking changes the world.
Wellsy wrote:No doubt they’re devoted in their nonviolent resistance but I am not convinced it achieves much let alone what you say it could possibly achieve. Unaware of any precedent to support such a notion that people slaughtering others somehow acknowledge their humanity and it stops. Have any historical examples?
Because not fighting doesn’t seem to eliminate the basis for such a conflict unless one thinks conflicts are merely because people fight and thus if they simply didn’t fight then it’d break the motive/basis for it.
I can see examples of people using kindness instead of hate for ideological reasons like black folks who talk to KKK. But that is different than something like british colonialism which had already proven historically they didn’t have high regard for Indians with previous famines and such. It seems apparent that without violent resistance then the British couldve extended their rule.
A couple quick Examples would be Gandhi, MLK, and Mandela. You seem to dismiss Gandhi as having no effect because some people dismissed his effectiveness. This is belied by those who copied him. You don’t copy failures.
Governments are very careful to create a ‘reason for the public’ to justify their violence. Any violent act will serve to mobilize the people to war. How do you do this if there are no violent acts? You don’t get your people to kill others unless they see a threat.
It all comes down to real change requires a change in ourselves. Changing our thinking changes the world.
I dream of the United Citystates of Earth, where each Citystate has a standardized border such as one whole degree of Latitude by one whole degree of Longitude.