Movements

This wider dissemination may further encourage popularity. Many popular movements fail because they do not create an organized political and economic platform and base. The political failure will reflect the economic default. Without an economic base the membership of the movement is dependent upon outside forces that control property and jobs.

When, what one thinks, says and does, is based on conviction, what the individual looks like, who they are, where they are from, what they wear, how they talk, or what their tastes are, is of far lesser importance than what they know and believe. The superficial person plays the role without any true conviction or understanding of what that role involves. For these people, how they appear to others is of greater importance than what they really are. They are incapable or unwilling to make any substantial personal changes involving one's conditioning and belief structure. The more popular a movement becomes the more of these types of individual's become involved, until the movement becomes a mere parody. For a movement to be successful, it must base its existence on the self-education, examination, realization or actualization of its members, such that the tenants of the movement become the self-guiding principles of the individual.

Movements often have affects on the larger culture even if these movements may be short lived. Sometimes these affects are immediate but most often they occur over time, taking as much as 20 years or longer. The prevailing culture resists new ideas and change, believing that they are and have the best of all possible worlds, or otherwise what are they working so hard to sustain. The resistance is in ratio to the degree to which the new departs from the old. The greatest resistance to new movements are established economic self-interests where the new is in conflicts.

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