The revolutionary struggle is ultimately always a battle of movement vs inertia. One side says "We need to move!" and the other side makes clever-sounding arguments for why not moving is actually the better strategy right now. In such debates, the movement side is always correct.
We're stuck. We're stuck in power-serving holding patterns that our driving us toward death and dystopia.
When something is stuck, you try to create movement. You wiggle it around to try and un-stick it. You don't fuss too much about which movements are "right", you just move.
When something is stuck, you try to create movement. You wiggle it around to try and un-stick it. You don't fuss too much about which movements are "right", you just move.
That's all we're really trying to do here. We're trying to get things moving against a globe-spanning empire that is working to keep things inert. We're wiggling the stuck object back and forth, this way and that, trying to free it up from the inertia it's stuck in.
Movement can feel scary, especially when things have been the same your whole life. There's actually a name for the cognitive bias which clings to the familiar: "status quo bias". 
"What if we move the wrong direction?" our status quo bias protests. "What if we wind up in a worse place than we are now!"
To which the response is "We'll deal with that when we get there. Right now we need to get things moving, because we're headed for extinction if we don't."
To which the response is "We'll deal with that when we get there. Right now we need to get things moving, because we're headed for extinction if we don't."
That's not movement, that's inertia disguising itself as movement. Proponents of inertia can be very clever in their arguments for staying stuck.
https://twitter.com/victoreeah/status/1338967829434019841?s=20
Staying still can feel like safety. If you've ever been stuck up a tree too afraid to climb down you've seen this instinct play out very concretely. But you can't stay in the branches, and we can't remain with the status quo. Our real safety isn't in inertia, it's in movement.
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