Thanks for the link (I read a bunch of it), and for the corroboration.
I tend to think of protests as being like step 1 of Alcoholics Anonymous: Admit that you have a problem. If the country doesn't recognize it has a problem, it has very little chance to fix that problem. The protest itself doesn't solve anything, but it creates an atmosphere in which the need for change becomes widely understood: A necessary first step toward the solution.
However, this is mostly a hypothesis based on pattern recognition, and I intend to keep my mind open to the opinions of those who have more experience with social change.
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Date: 2016-11-29 04:42 pm (UTC)I tend to think of protests as being like step 1 of Alcoholics Anonymous: Admit that you have a problem. If the country doesn't recognize it has a problem, it has very little chance to fix that problem. The protest itself doesn't solve anything, but it creates an atmosphere in which the need for change becomes widely understood: A necessary first step toward the solution.
However, this is mostly a hypothesis based on pattern recognition, and I intend to keep my mind open to the opinions of those who have more experience with social change.