If you live inside an empire and you are only trying to make changes, you are merely begging for the clemency of a master who doesn't have any material or moral reason to accede. They are holding up the system in which you beg them for your life and suborn yourself to their whims, and they get to feel good about "giving" life to you. In trying to break that system, you're actually holding it up.
The Protestant moral persuasion movement has ended up as an exhausted, obsolete, or intentionally defective theory of change. Like Rev. Warnock (D-GA) all but said, they're merely a theater for moral performance. We can, and IMO should, tear down this theater and devalue virtue signaling, so that "morality" generates material wealth, rather than consuming it like private equity overhead.
If you live inside an empire and you are only trying to make changes, you are merely begging for the clemency of a master who doesn't have any material or moral reason to accede. They are holding up the system in which you beg them for your life and suborn yourself to their whims, and they get to feel good about "giving" life to you. In trying to break that system, you're actually holding it up.
The Protestant moral persuasion movement has ended up as an exhausted, obsolete, or intentionally defective theory of change. Like Rev. Warnock (D-GA) all but said, they're merely a theater for moral performance. We can, and IMO should, tear down this theater and devalue virtue signaling, so that "morality" generates material wealth, rather than consuming it like private equity overhead.