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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I like the way you think, however I think you may be incorrect about the premise.

But in the end it all proved mostly fruitless because what ended up toppling the Soviet state was....mere indifference

Think of people as a group entity, each individual a cell of the larger organism. What one does affects the others. Would we still have had that indifference without the opposition?

[–]naples[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And that I don't know. I can say that in terms of office politics, one of the best ways to help management see their mistakes is to attempt to very publicly, very enthusiastically attempt to implement the worse of their policies. When the results are inevitably poor, there comes a moment of eye contact between me and them, when I start to pout as if to say, "Why aren't your ideas, working, Master? Is it me?"

But if you try to argue with them instead of showing them the results of their poor decisions, they can blame you for your failures not only personally, but also publicly. Are you aware of a better way of doing things?