Doing things wrongly, incl making grave mistakes is unavoidable in cultural revolutions

Evidence

In all cultural revolutions there are periods of chaos and confusion, times when grave mistakes are made. If we fear mistakes, doing things wrongly, constantly evaluating ourselves, we will never make the academy a culturally diverse place where scholars and the curricula address every dimension of that difference. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 77

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A genuinely useful life-advice passage: fear of error (self-evaluation, doing things wrongly) blocks the very transformation sought, so error-tolerance is not optional but constitutive of change.
• XREF: connects to: Cultural revolution faces the paradox that readiness makes revolution unnecessary — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 189; Cultural critique’s political effect is indeterminate and unknowable in advance — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2223

Broader Connections

• Cultural critique’s political effect is indeterminate and unknowable in advance #corroborates (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2223
• Cultural revolution faces the paradox that readiness makes revolution unnecessary #complicates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 189