One hard lesson of adulthood is that contrary to what TV tells us, everyone is playing checkers and no one is playing chess, actually
We're just a bunch of grown children playing dress up, which is terrifying and endearing.
The main thing is to be humble enough to understand that, and be careful with the people who truly seem to believe their dress up game is real
The main thing is to be humble enough to understand that, and be careful with the people who truly seem to believe their dress up game is real
This is one of the most liberating lessons of organizing.
It isn't actually all that hard even for small groups of strategic people to make billionaires and/or electeds capitulate.
The folks we imagine to be chess players are usually just checkers players who got lucky.
It isn't actually all that hard even for small groups of strategic people to make billionaires and/or electeds capitulate.
The folks we imagine to be chess players are usually just checkers players who got lucky.
Learning that makes us a lot less prone to over-estimating authoritary, a lot less likely to underestimate the power of populist fash opposition, *and* a lot more likely to win meaningful victories if we harness that wisdom confidently.
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