Letters to the Editor
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Thanks For The Clarification, Glenn!
I think I owe one in return.
What I'm trying to get at is that from my POV the more important distinction is between those who are OTROWISTS (OTROW: "One True Right And Only Way") and those who are not, rather than between systemic critics and those who are not.
Whether one thinks that ONLY revolutionary change or ONLY incrimental change will do the trick, the result is a narrowed outlook that suffers from automatically rejecting alternatives that are valuable simply to contemplate and be challenged by, even if one ends up rejecting them for other options.
Personally, I'm a believer in the need for revolutionary change via evolutionary methods--sort of the way that scientific revolutions actually occur. One needs to lay a great deal of groundwork in order for large-scale change to have a firm footing. Otherwise, well, we've seen what usually happens with revolutions in relative vacuums.
At the same time, the best crafters of incrimental change are often those most tuned in to the largest scale of systemic cause and effect.