It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
To speak out against an unjust war was treasonous; to speak against the treatment of blacks made you a communist. But if you feel in your heart that you have a responsibility to advance justice and human rights, then do it.
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control — your mind and your mouth.
Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom — that the current economic and political system is the only possible one — the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint?
