#graduality

“Even if those in authority are determined to promote social change, they are faced with the intractable fact that their reality can be changed only very gradually, while popular mobilization on behalf of change can be attained only by stimulating mass enthusiasm and emotion.

To admit the reality of the slowness of change is to deprive themselves of the support of the masses and to yield the political initiative to radical demagogues; to mobilize the masses on behalf of unattainable goals is to court an eventual explosion - unless that mobilization becomes a vehicle for subordinating the masses to centralized, bureaucratic control of a sort.

Furthermore, to obtain the support of the propertied and more educated groups, the reform planners often have to tread most warily in order not to disrupt the traditional social order - they permit the laws to contain loopholes of all sorts and even let them remain unenforced. The distance between promise and attainment thus tends to widen.”

You can’t really put it better...

As I always say, the primary fault lies in over-reliance on tradition, lack of patience, as well as in the overall insecurity and entitlement of people, nowhere else. Far beyond politics and social drama because the thing engulfs all the areas of human life and activity.