Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-68.48.137.130-20161128005048/@comment-26018514-20170329193840

Terminus99 wrote:

I think she left because she just didn't want to keep being part of what the White Fang had become, not because of the effectiveness of their methods.

Even if their methods were actually working, Blake would have left because getting "equality" like that wasn't worth it. But that is part of their effectiveness... look at the most effective peaceful protest leaders who flatly refused violent protests be used with their message IRL, they recognise what that does to any results they may see... it renders them unsustainable.

Establishing a fear culture is easy enough, but keeping one becomes unsustainable without destroying any sort of morale values you may have.

If everyone is too terrified, they'll either revolt or run away, If you attempt to get peace through fear, eventually you will get to a cessation of violence... except in order to sustain the peace you need to then create and crush more violence, you steadily require more despicable tactics to crush resistance... but eventually that just creates more violent Anarchists...

It's a viscious circle Blake has separated herself from, and from her speech it was the spiral that she ran from, not the organization. Even if Adam was still a douche, if Blake believed the WF itself was on the right path she likely would have stayed, it was disillusionment with both that got her out.