I can't find the article again that uses an analogy for "revolutionary" change vs "incremental" change: that of slowly climbing a mountain in a fog (roughly knowing which direction the peak is and going there) vs launching up into the air to randomly land somewhere. The takeaway is that if we've made it far up the mountain of progress, a revolution is more-likely to land us somewhere far below the progress we've already made.

Anyone remember anything like this? I'd love to find the blog post again!