You are in South Africa, the year is 1952, and Apartheid is in full affect. You and a few others want to over throw the government using passive resistance. You get some more people together and try to get more to drive your cause. It is going along well you have over 250 people following your advice and it seems to spread to others in a short time. You thought for sure the group was going to win until one day the government found out somehow and took you into custody and split the group up into many, many pieces. You get out of jail in four months and try to get the group together again, but everyone is different and a lot of people seem to be missing. Then you find out from your colleagues that they have moved people all around the country knowing that, if they can’t get together the can’t plan anything out, and if they do there will not be enough people to do anything about it. They have found the ultimate secret, divide and divide again till there are simply not enough people to do anything.
The conclusion brought on by the story above is that passive resistance has one ultimate weakness, people. You need a lot of people involved in the group to even make a dent, and then the entire country to make the c
hange. And with people in the new modern world, which is very unlike the old world in witch Gandhi was living in. In those days people were not as materialistic as today, they would not mind giving up anything they had, for a start they did not have much to give a way. They simply did not have the mass production of today witch allows anyone, even with a poor job, to get ten times more things then in Gandhi’s days, and the items that are made today will not be given up so easily due to an attachment to modern technology to live on. Many people would be utterly useless, scared, and would not know what to do next. Some people would perhaps even die without their technology they have. We are increasingly getting stuck on our technology for survival. And if a person were to give it up to fight some law, they would learn to cope with it.
So in conclusion to the whole topic about passive resistance I have to admit that passive resistance would not work as well as it did for Gandhi all those years ago. People today in the modern societies are not as willing to give up their valuables for a fight against a situation, and would most definitely not want to spend time in jail like Gandhi did. So with those affects in pla
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