Commitment to building must precede perfect conditions for change
Evidence
Demanding perfection before you are prepared to commit is Prog Tech SF. Starting to build a way out of hell HERE, NOW is kyberpunk. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2371
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines kyberpunk against a perfectionist Prog Tech SF stance.
- APHORISMS: Reads as actionable advice about political and personal commitment.
- XREF: Connects to Fisher’s accelerations and the ‘no future/anti-nostalgia’ commitments in his writing. — connects to: Fundamental projects must be freely and continuously re-chosen rather than settled once; Social order change must precede all other progress — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 943; Successful party transformation requires early, sequenced organizational change before programmatic change. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 76 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Social order change must precede all other progress
#expands(0.80) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 943 - Fundamental projects must be freely and continuously re-chosen rather than settled once
#complicates(0.78) - Successful policymaking depends on addressing problems at the right moment.
#qualifies(0.76) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2851 - Successful party transformation requires early, sequenced organizational change before programmatic change.
#exemplifies(0.75) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 76 - Deradicalization messages must be timed to reach people at the cusp of change
#exemplifies(0.72) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 69