Posted by Anonymous on 2019/03/04 under Life I think the radicalizing of the approaches has been difficult for me. I can appreciate people who choose to take a stand and to make that stand clear to others; what I don’t appreciate is how sometimes the intention to make that stand clear to others can sometimes get in the way of strategic pathways that could actually help. Said concisely by a PSU professor whom I remember only by his first name Doug, “don’t let perfect get in the way of better.” Much in the same way, radical approaches to progress often idealize their approach at the expense of the real progress that can at times be made, if they weren’t so absolute in their thinking. It seems to me that progress happens at the precipice of chaos, and so if there isn’t a clearly defined course of action at the edge of our philosophy, well then it seems cowardly to me to shy away from that edge, and to seek refuge in the comfort of our principles, only to sacrifice the only hope for progress available to us.