“Why?” provoked not only the Prague Spring but also the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The revolutionaries and everyday citizens who brought on these societal waves of change all shared the same question: Why are things this way and not another way? If you get enough people to ask themselves this, tremendous—and tremendously unpredictable—things suddenly become possible (without being able to define what those things may be a priori).
