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Will MacAskill on Creating Lasting Change

The Daily Stoic

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The Impact of Gandhi's Movement

The idea that you could morally undermine the cause until it until your occupiers will collapses just didn't exist before. Gandhi's sort of I mean you could trace it back to Thoreau protests the Mexican American War and but Gandhi sort of Gandhi discovers Thoreau after he comes up with the idea of passive resistance. There was some point in time which at least in the west was sometime before classical Athens which was the first democracy. The same is true when we think about model campaigns we could be undergoing today if we don't fight for certain rights then it's not at all obvious that we all the future generations will converge on them instead.

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