About this site

Reflecting on Reframing Revolution is an independent publication launched in October 2026 by Molly Perry. Over a decade of varying levels of internal turmoil from conversations and interactions experienced, observed, and told about with people of all sorts of beliefs and ideologies has led to this, a more public attempt to reconcile the increasingly frequent conflicting emotions and thoughts of today's world. Certainly leftist, yet there's the rub: why are interactions with the left so... tense? Aggressive? Isolating?

Humanistic and realistic, Reflections on Reframing Revolutions is exactly that. So many of the various revolutionary ideas and movements are goals necessary for equity, equality, compassion, justice, empathy, ethical, and moral societal structures. But is our approach to that end goal, that utopic society, also subject to those principles? There are times where it seems like they are not, or that those principles are in opposition to the way some seek them. Is this right? Is it necessary? This is a place to reflect on how best to frame those revolutions.

The world is too grey to definitively say any one approach, view, philosophy, or ideology is the objective best. In a sense, people are messy, and society both struggles and benefits from that fact.

Here is a place to ponder and discuss if our current approach is the most appropriate, how to improve alignment of target values to process guidelines, and in general, how to make the world a better place. It's a place of kindness and compassion, for whatever knowledge and experience we each have, none of us have it all. There is always room to learn and improve, and that is beautiful! Furthermore, that means there's always room and opportunity for us to be both educator and student, peers as humans and perpetually in a state of reciprocal learning.

Subjectivity is appropriate, lack of understanding or agreement expected. But subjectivity is not a replacement for objectivity, nor vice versa. Information to help understanding is not to be gatekept, and effort is expected to progress. Disagreement on certain particular does not instrinsically imply complete hostility or misalignment. Recognition and respect for the of humanity for all is a must, as well as the varying levels of mental, emotional, social, and physical capacity and bandwidth we each hold at any point in time. These shouldn't be used as excuses, accountability is important, but we should also recognize our lack of knowledge for the number and quality of spoons in other peoples' drawers.

Personally, I definitely find these can be difficult at times, nuanced to the point of incapacitation to follow idealistically. However, perfection is not expected, and it never should be. Humans are indisputabley incapable of perfection, but the inability to follow a singular best path directly gives rise to innumerable choices, choices that create to complex and individualized paths. This complexity is seemingly unpredictable, and the lack of predictability is what makes us seem messy. But only messy in appearance, unpredictable due to the level of complexity. Therefore, patterns and order exist, but most often just take effort to identify. These patterns that within the perceived mess are each beautiful and unique. Hence, by the transitive property, humans are each beautiful and unique, a chracteristic shared by our imperfection.

Let's recognize and cherish each other, and do our best to collectively understand and improve the world one reframed revolution at a time.

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