Keep Putting Out Good Policy
What a tremendously lucky chance we have to play the role of putting out correct policy for human beings. We need to keep putting good policy out no matter how many times it’s rejected, because, of course, to have good policy rejected is only the beginning. To have people turn down a correct policy and adopt a wrong one should not discourage you a bit. Just be patient. The wrong one won’t work, and then there will be bids for new policies, and if you put out a correct one again, again it will be rejected in favor of a wrong one, but your policy will become better known. Certain bits of it will be borrowed in an attempt to patch up the other wrong one. And the second wrong one won’t work, in spite of the patch. Surprisingly soon, with the greatest reluctance on the part of the patterns leading the people, the people will turn to you and say, “All right, dammit,* let’s try your policy.”
Harvey Jackins
From A Better World, page 80
* "Dammit" means damn it, which is an exclamation of displeasure.