Don't Be a Hero: Valentine for Nihilists, Part 2.

Is your love so strong that you would sacrifice your life? Do you understand the mechanics of the evil that you oppose so well that putting yourself in harm's way will bring lasting change? It's one thing to believe the puppet show; that everything is fine despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It's another to be so painfully aware of what's wrong and feel overwhelming disgust at the cud chewing intransigence of the public.Yet another to try to sacrifice yourself to correct that change...that's Ted Kaczynski, suicide bomber, Guy Fawkes territory.  It's still another thing to be heading an army or a movement that is actively changing the public discourse; bringing about societal and institutional change. To have a modicum of support from above and a vast wave of ferment and movement from behind. Only then does your death, your sacrifice, make the wave burst the dam, jump the banks and nothing is ever the same after. Or, you can do as "V for Vendetta" providing that you are possessed of an inhuman degree of talent, (you can be good, you can be damn good...but I doubt you are V good!), and vast personal resources to systematically dismantle an evil empire's reality and means of control. 

That is why you shouldn't be a hero. Because despite the backlash, there are others who must first hear your message and believe.