INDIVIDUAL REFORM, NOT ‘PROTEST ACTIVISM’ Beginning of True Reform

Those who think negatively and engage in protesting and demonstrating against others become negative by nature. Such persons are a liability to their society, not an asset to it, contrary to what they imagine about themselves. Those who constantly point out others’ faults and blame others for various problems and social ills are, in fact, not doing anything useful. Their activities are simply destructive. According to the law of nature, problems are not problems as such, but, rather, challenges. Problems are only an unpleasant name for challenges. Problems create competition, and competition increases people’s creativity. This process consequently leads to progress and achievement. Life is based on challenges. Without challenges, there is no development. Arnold Toynbee formulated the true principle of challenge-response mechanism. According to this formulation, all problems are challenges, and all challenges are stepping-stones towards progress. No problem can entirely eliminate the opportunities that also exist simultaneously, not even in what seems to be the most difficult situations. Given this maxim, people who go around protesting constantly in the name of ‘social activism’ and ‘reforming society’ are simply going against the law of nature. Those who do so create a two-fold evil: For themselves, this course is akin to committing psychological suicide; and for others, it leads to even more problems. Such persons are themselves problem-members of society. The best way to examine their efforts is to judge their actions in terms of the results of their protest-oriented ‘activism’. Analysing this, you will find that these people are problem-creators, rather than problem-solvers. Their theory is based on the concept of “we and they”. This kind of theory only inculcates negative thinking among people and exacerbates existing conflicts. Social problems are, in fact, individual problems. Educate individuals, and social problems will be solved by themselves. Education refers to formal and informal education. The concept of education also includes training the individual that is, making people positive-minded and realistic. Real reform begins with educating individuals, and not by