Imagine if during the initial q posts, they told us this will take 25 years.
You lose the audience immediately. There's a clear reason why this movement is working and it's because we're making headway towards a goal. The end date is meaningless as long as we progress.
Setting a goal far in the future would have been demoralizing, and setting up a near future goal would have left us feeling duped if we didn't meet it
Imagine if during the initial q posts, they told us this will take 25 years.
You lose the audience immediately. There's a clear reason why this movement is working and it's because we're making headway towards a goal. The end date is meaningless as long as we progress.
Setting a goal far in the future would have been demoralizing, and setting up a near future goal would have left us feeling duped if we didn't meet it
I doubt we'd be where we are now if they had.