in politics as well as art. don't waste your time being moderate. people who hate what you do will never approve of you so don't moderate yourself for the sake of their approval
in politics as well as art. don't waste your time being moderate. people who hate what you do will never approve of you so don't moderate yourself for the sake of their approval
Okay this is a neat (likely fake) story, but the reality is that this is, objectively, terrible advice. "Don't dabble with elements, commit 100% to a thing even if it makes no sense and is an actual assault on the eyes. You aren't allowed to like something or use accents, your things must be only the thing you like right now at this moment or they're complete SHIT." If I don't love it, I must HATE it or it's absolute trash.
It's even worse to relate this to politics. Don't weigh and evaluate the merits or shortcomings of arguments from a multiple viewpoints or stances, pick only the extremes of one side or the other and make everyone that disagrees think you're insane and maybe want to kill you.
See only black and white. View the world only in extremes.
I agree with the message of the screenshot, but not with that of your topic. Art and politics are very different, and radicalism has never led to success. In art, though? Sure, go ham, follow your vision.
It'd be interesting to see a plot of events with the x axis being how radical it was and the y being how successful it was.
I'm from the US, so pardon my slant here but some events I can think of:
Boston Tea Party American Revolutionary War Rosa Parks Mining revolts Steel worker strikes Luddites Suffrage movement
I've personally participated in non violent protests against Gulf of Mexico oil drilling in the 90's, against the 2000 Florida election scam, against the 2001 Iraq invasion, for gay marriage in 2008, Woman's March in 2016 and a handful of others... gotta say it really feels like I spent a lot of energy for not a lot of return. I think maybe the gay marriage March helped a bit... maybe... Other than that, they're drilling the hell out of the Gulf, Jeb Bush stole the 2000 election for his brother, the US invaded Iraq and the Me Too movement hasn't done much except give douchey men something to feel persecuted about
Even MLK Jr, the non- violent hero I looked up to and celebrated in my youth, was only moderately successful with one aspect of his cause; namely segregation. But he was promptly assassinated as soon as he started making any progress on income inequality and the ills of the US capitalistic system... then praised so loudly for his moderate successes on segregation that his many impassioned speeches about the systematic injustices against the poor are largely forgotten.
The claim that radicalism in politics has never led to success is utterly false. While they may not achieve everything that they set out to, most movements that actually change things are radical.
Only radicalism ever leads to success. Nothing ever changes by maintaining the status quo.