If voting just makes it worse slower, then what can We the People do to make it better?
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Advocacy. Mouth to mouth education like what you are already doing. Too few people understand yet. We need more people with this same understanding first.
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Direct action, and I don’t exclude anything. Protests and strikes make an impact, but they are just two forms of direct action out of infinity. Direct action means taking matters into your own hands instead of delegating.
The thing is, if you want to take the more radical forms of direct action while still staying relatively safe yourself, you need broad popular support. See #1 above.
Eventually, the primary beneficiaries and boosters of the status quo, the billionaires, will fold.
if you want to take the more radical forms of direct action while still staying relatively safe yourself, you need broad popular support.
Yesterday you said you needed a good idea to gum up the works.
Is it a transcendental condition of a “medium-term world you’d wish to live in” that the majority wisely chose it?
If it is then I can understand why you, specifically, would be in need. My friend is a philosophy professor seemingly stuck in an endless loop of mediocrity mucking with this. It’s contrary to the vast majority of human history, perhaps some divine fallacy and privilege difficult to rationalize today.
But, if you’ve rationalized that a minority will choose wisely and another minority will choose correctly but not wisely, then I think you don’t need broad popular support and good ideas. That’s what happens afterwards. Today, we need to be better than popular and good.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
What do you need to make a difference?
Is it a transcendental condition of a “medium-term world you’d wish to live in” that the majority wisely chose it?
What an amazing question. God bless you and everything around you that is supportive of you.
Right now the answer is yes. I am too weak (and likely insufficiently knowledgeable) now to create my own justice for myself. So yes I need support. A lot of support.
But even when I won’t need the support, as best as I can figure myself out now, I still prefer the aesthetics of camaraderie over the aesthetics of me walking over a pile of corpses.
Bottom line, I need at least a few friends who fully understand and support me and my interests, no matter what. I enjoy spending time in solitude but I don’t want to be absolutely alone, no matter what, even if I had all the power.
I am in training right now. I won’t always be as dumb and as weak as I am now.
But, if you’ve rationalized that a minority will choose wisely and another minority will choose correctly but not wisely, then I think you don’t need broad popular support and good ideas. That’s what happens afterwards. Today, we need to be better than popular and good.
I don’t disagree.
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
I am a treasure of my own world. And to me you are also a precious treasure. I want neither of us to sacrifice too soon, but let us make our own wisest decisions. Power without wisdom is blind. Wisdom without power is impotent. Let it be so.