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A rather subtle thought just occurred to me that explains why artistic pursuits so often correlate with use of weapons of the weak.
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It's because WotW are often only capable of destruction, so if you don't pair them with a creative pursuit, they'll rot your soul. So many instinctively do so. By contrast weapons of the powerful often are just the destructive aspect of technology that also has a creative side.
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For eg. airplanes can both help civilians travel (creative use), and be used as fighter planes to kill people (destructive use). By contrast, the technology of organizing a protest really cannot create good policy. It can only block bad policy.
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Organizing a protest can of course lead to good policy. The Civil Rights Movement, non-violent revolutions, etc. are all examples of laws changing for the better because there was a movement right?
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The protest movements didn't create the good policy. Individuals did, usually in-power types. The sequence seems to be: protests or other WotW create pressure on the bad policies by spotlighting them, then some adjacent party uses more powerful means to actually drive change
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The problem is usually lack of precision. Building requires precision. WotW deploy more energy than precision. Some sort of 2nd law of thermodynamics going on there. Like "innovation by committee" except much worse.