I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
‘NIN - YAKMN’ commented on my post yesterday, saying that “nobody changes the world” and “anyone who says they can change the world is an idiot, and more often than not liberal”.
I must say I wholeheartedly disagree on all points. One man(or woman) can change the way the whole world works. Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Bill Gates, Lee Harvey Oswald, heck, even Jesus Christ - one man that has managed to fool the majority of the Western World into doing what he says for the past two thousand years.
All it takes is one person with an idea, and the entire course of history can change. That’s something you don’t need to believe, because the facts make it irrefutable. Without Oppenheimer, Hiroshima wouldn’t have happened. You can’t argue that. I like to think that one day I could do something as important as he did. I just have to browse through a copy of The Daily Mail to work up enough rebellious anger to want to start a revolution. Given that, I obviously disagree with your point that “anyone who says they can change the world is an idiot”.
We live in a world where great change comes from the oddest places - a member of the Boomtown Rats feeding the poor, a science fiction writer taking charge of some of the planet’s richest wallets and biggest egos, a fat c/nt from Reading changing the face of British comedy. Change is, by it’s very nature, hard to pin down. So it isn’t stupid to think it could come from me, or you, or anyone. Because that’s what change does - it takes expectations that are based on what came before and turns them on their head. Because change is powerful.
Oh, and one final note, ‘more often thon not liberal’. Sigh. You know I like you, man, but I really think your blind and unjustified hatred of liberals like myself(well, I’m actually an Anarcho-Capitalist, but with a Liberalist bent) needs to be re-thought. You seen to have an opinion of liberals shaped almost exclusively by the American Right-Wing Media, which doesn’t make sense, as you are neither an American citizen or(as far as I am aware) Right-Wing. Take some time to read up on UK Liberalism and maybe rethink your opinions.