The word radical, like the word radish, derives from rad, meaning “root.” A radical is someone who attempts to dig to the root of a situation. Effective change can occur only if you change a course of action from the causal point. Failure to understand this is why so many “liberating” revolutions of the past never elicited long-lasting, positive change. They dealt only with surface symptoms, not the root causes of social and cultural problems.

