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> have to get involved in politics. Given the scope of human experience now encompassed by "politics", that's not sustainable. Or as someone else once put it:
by tw25585624 6y ago
> have to get involved in politics.
Given the scope of human experience now encompassed by "politics", that's not sustainable.
Or as someone else once put it:
"130. Technology advances with great rapidity and threatens freedom at many different points at the same time (crowding, rules and regulations, increasing dependence of individuals on large organizations, propaganda and other psychological techniques, genetic engineering, invasion of privacy through surveillance devices and computers, etc.). To hold back any ONE of the threats to freedom would require a long and difficult social struggle. Those who want to protect freedom are overwhelmed by the sheer number of new attacks and the rapidity with which they develop, hence they become apathetic and no longer resist. To fight each of the threats separately would be futile. Success can be hoped for only by fighting the technological system as a whole; but that is revolution, not reform."
- pmoriarty 6y agoThe choice is not between fixing everything and doing nothing. The choice is between doing nothing and doing what you can within your limited, fallible, human means. Even the giants of history have failed to fix everything, but even small people have managed to make a difference. The problem is that too many people capable of making a difference don't even try.
- tw25585624 6y agoI wasn't suggesting doing nothing, nor was I suggesting fixing everything. I was critiquing your trite suggestion to "get involved in politics." What? Vote? Write letters? Bitch on the internet? All that does is make people feel better about the system as it rolls over them. The system has more power over our lives than at any other time in history because people act in the ways the system permits them to act. I don't have the answers, but for sure it isn't going to be more of the same.