"Not everyone can be an activist"

Daniel Davies dsquared at al-islam.com
Thu Feb 20 10:13:07 PST 2003


Kelley very sensibly wrote:


>>. being an activist tends to
require a certain lifestyle and not everyone can obtain those lovely conditions for the entirety of their lives.<<

Furthermore, what ever the conditions of their life, it is highly unlikely that everyone, or indeed a particularly high percentage of people, have the personality type to be an activist. It looks like a pretty difficult job to me; not unlike being a salesman for an unpopular product. Casual empiricism suggests to me that there are few people as unhappy an ineffectual as people who have gone into sales jobs but aren't really cut out for them, so I suspect that anyone trying (from the best of motives) to put pressure on people to do their duty and be activists, is most likely causing avoidable misery.

dd

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