On Change and Revolution

Verb Sap. to Obama & co.

Every eschatological promise within history fails to liberate us; rather, it disappoints and therefore enslaves us. That is why the mythological glamor that has been added onto such concepts as change and revolution has to be demythologized. Change is not good in itself. Whether it is good or bad depends on its particular content and how it relates to other things. The opinion that the main task in the struggle for freedom is that of changing the world is, I repeat, a myth. -Pope Benedict XVI, taken from Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions