I used to think in terms of revolution. If a concept or a campaign or a coalition or whatever didn’t totally change the right structures, I thought it didn’t count. But nothing ever seemed revolutionary enough. Thinking like that got lonely.
Now I try to think in terms of life cycles. I try to think of the planet as one massive, connected living organism. Some concepts/campaigns/coalitions/etc. soothe pain in a tiny part of the organism. Some do nothing. The best ones give birth to a new, more healed organism altogether.