Rebecca Solnit is correct when she argues that ‘every protest shifts the world’s balance’ and urges us to remember the ‘countless acts of resistance on all scales that were never recorded’. To reinforce this idea, she employs the metaphor of the mushroom: ‘The mushrooms that spring up after rain are only the fruiting body of a far larger underground fungus we do not see; the rain causes the mushrooms to rise out of the earth, but the fungus was alive and well (and invisible) beforehand; the rain can be an event.’
