Have you ever dealt with a loved one that is doing something you know isn't good for them. You know that you cannot force them to see or change their ways before they are ready. Just so- one cannot speak loudly or convincingly enough, or antagonize enough, or reason with enough to point out the downfall of the approach of provocation to the provocation artist either- not until he or she is ready.
Antagonism/activism can to a call to awaken but cannot change peoples mindset. Art of war, Conan the Barbarian, and Aesop's Fables.
"The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun said: "I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveller to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the stronger. You begin."
So the Sun retired behind a cloud, and the Wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveller. But the harder he blew the more closely did the traveller wrap his cloak round him, till at last the Wind had to give in despair." ...
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