The first principle of planning is timing. Like comedy and sports and sex, timing is everything when it comes to activism, and for the same reasons. People are fickle, easily distracted, and largely irrational. Hit them when they’re paying attention to something else and all the best planning will be lost, but strike when the hour is right and you are guaranteed to win. Dictators, of course, do everything they can to make sure that no time will ever be right for resistance. They shut the opposition down at every turn. But even they are not above the natural rhythm of human life. Often this
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