Revolutionary foolishness

 

Sometimes in our impatience to create the new—too hurriedly—grafting it over the old, we bring down even the settled old along with the unsettled new. Certain fundamental laws are broken in this storm. The naked passion, blind impulse and uncontrolled force are hardly the reasonable tools to forge something new.

So build slowly. The past is a platform, a foundation, a book of lessons about what to do and what to avoid. It’s a set of good and bad, but a box of lessons nonetheless. So handle the old with care while you go for making the new. Impatience with the past is a blasting revolution. Yes, it destroys the past quickly, but it’s very chaotic. It doesn’t lay a foundation. In the name of foundation it goes for repression, killings, deweeding. It crosses all limits, uproots everything in the name of change.