Demanding total change can itself sabotage incremental improvement.
Evidence
Excessive demand is a sublime form of sabotage. … There is no point in imagining a unanimous will where objective and subjective antagonism provokes disaster. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 176
Categorization
- APHORISMS: ‘Excessive demand is a sublime form of sabotage’ — a genuine life-advice aphorism about how maximalist demands can be a disguised refusal to act.