So a friend of mine sent me a strip from the awesome webcomic “Boy on a Stick and Slither.” I’m kinda new to WordPress, so embedding the image in the post like I want isn’t working — so bear with me and see the comic here.
Setting aside the Grey’s Anatomy reference in the post title, I’ve always gone back and forth on the whole idea of being taken seriously or not. The idealist in me says that we should be as a radical as we want to be, but then the pragmatist in me says that kind of radicalism (like complaining without an alternative) won’t work if we want to see real change.
So now I’m asking you, just as Slither asks Boy on a Stick: What is an acceptable amount of radicalism?
(Thanks to Michelle for sending the BoaSaS my way.)
I just posted this on my blog. I translated it just for this post:
Commenting isn’t easy.
I’m often criticized that I’m radical regardless of the consequences and that I’m not giving any alternatives. That’s not true. It’s a fact that criticism/radicalism is not frequently on the agenda. Nobody wants to be blamed. They are too often silent, even if someone should say something!
In my opinion criticism (or radicalism) is simply disseminating information about personal views. Democracy is based on information. Radicalism is only publicizing the work of others (or rather non-work). Others who are on the job and have some responsibilities.
People say that there are two kinds of radicalism. But both ARE radical. There are of course different uses for different commentaries and also the consequences are different.
But it is ALWAYS better to be radical than not to be heard at all!
As my colleague likes to say – most of the public is convinced that radicals are those who are looking the problems which don’t really exists. And they don’t like it. I don’t know if that is because there are in fact too many problems and everybody knows that, or everybody just wants to be appear to be better. But everybody is sucking-up and doing as little as possible!
You can expect radicalism from me. But never anger. Anger doesn’t help. I enjoy commenting anybody that is not doing his job. But if they are doing as much and as good as they really can, than I can even praise somebody. Really!
Is deleting comments radical?