You know, if at some point in the future someone where to pick up a book on political revolutions, ideologies or personalities much in the same way that I have done today when I "Who's who in political revolutions" by Jack A Goldstone then I know I would have been successful. No matter how small the blurb or large the essay, I feel I would be somewhat justified in claiming some level of success. Why you ask? How is it that I can claim achievement simply by the mention of my name.
I know success to be true, because for my name to be mentioned in the same breath as Fidel Castro, Frantz Fannon, Kwame Nkurma or any of these leaders would have meant that I had made someone upset. It would have meant that I had spoken up against the status quo. Spoken out against the powers that be. Why is that success? It is success because the status quo sucks! Too many people still suffer in silence, disappear without a name and struggle without no cause but to make it another day. If my name was said in the same breadth as those men, it would have meant I said something. Time is river, not a lake and man is always changing. Even the most evil of men, had caused humankind to re-evaluate the way it did things.
The reason I claim success. If my name were found in some book as this it would mean that it was written and that some time in the future, some person would find it. My story would have caused a reaction to some one, maybe one of disgust or anger. But it would provoke thought, and a reflection on the status quo. Whether that person acted or not, I would claim success because I would have caused a reevaluation of what is in relation to what could be.
"The obligation of the rich is to the poor. Because if they are ignored, the poor will seek power"
