The greatest enemy of revolution is success

Kirsten 2022-01-21 08:02:14

Reading the book today, I found this sentence very interesting: The greatest enemy of a revolution is its success. This is the Internet. A person who follows a revolutionary trend of thought (whether he is a grassroots hero or a cyber hero), once he is cultivated, he will be transformed into the object of a new round of revolution. Out of survival strategy, he must make new things to continue the storm he set off at the beginning, or he will be over. Because he can only play this way.

Obama always likes to use the word "sports" during the campaign. When he became president, he still said "Our movement". Sometimes people can't help but wonder: what movement? What exactly is his "movement"? Why is he still "moving" after the election, because he can't stop, he must transform his opponent into AIG, GM, etc. In the United States, my personal feeling is that the Democratic Party is suitable for entrepreneurship and the Republican Party is suitable for business.

Some of us are born revolutionaries and entrepreneurs. He can destroy or create, but he cannot keep it. This sentence may explain why Che Guevara would go out and start all over again when he was successful, repeatedly "exporting revolution." I’ve seen an old movie Cimmaron about this state cowboy hero Yancey. The same is true of Yancey. During the Oklahoma race, he ran to a place and started from scratch. Make a small town look decent. After the family had adapted, he slackened again and ran away again without knowing where to end. Later, it was discovered that he was actually nearby, but he didn't show up. In the end, he saved the man and died. No one knew his original glory when he died. This is a tragedy, but it is also a realm. Not everyone can look at the career they have created and retreat on their own.

Che Guevara and Yancey's life is a tragedy, they themselves became heroes. However, some other people in this world will grasp their own foundation and refuse to let go. They still use the old rules to manage the order that they have taken down, so there is the Cultural Revolution in this world.

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Cimarron quotes

  • Yancy Cravat: Sugar, if we all took root and squatted, there would never be any new country.

  • Yancy Cravat: Why, it'll be all over the southwest that Yancy Cravat was hiding behind a woman's petticoat!

    Sabra Cravat: But you didn't! They can't say so! You shot him there nicely in the ear, darling.

    Yancy Cravat: Well, you shouldn't interfere when men are having a little friendly shootin'.