Adrift

why will you be the first person to work with that leader and not be the leader yourself? if change is all around us, why not become change? i look forward to living in an idealist`s world.

We come from two unparallel cultures, yet I must confess that
I nodded my head through the better half of your article.
You are correct in your call for the stop of violent action,
because it is impossible to build a sound, peaceful society that
emerges from a puddle of blood. That is just a contradiction in
itself.
However it does happen. People don`t want passive leaders,
because like it or not, someone is more willing to listen to you
when you have a gun pointed to their head than when
you are pleading to them to change their policies.
This is my opinion: the masses of people will follow
radical non violent direct action, or radical violent direct action,
but never something in between.
I believe both are equally effective, obviously though the first being
the most beneficial.
Examples of people who have brought dramatical change
through non violent direct action are Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr said ``Non-violent direct action seeks to create
such crisis, and establish such creative tension, that a community
that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to
confront the issue``
I like the example of eutopia you give, but such eutopia will only
be established when the means of change are done through
non violent measures.