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But grassroots campaigns and protests do result in change. Not quickly enough for many people, but if your alternative is burning everything down....
by mcguire 5y ago
But grassroots campaigns and protests do result in change. Not quickly enough for many people, but if your alternative is burning everything down....
- delusional 5y agoGrassroots campaigns and protests let you change the small stuff around the edges. The system provides you with just enough knobs to play with to keep you oblivious to all the ones you can't.
- kelseyfrog 5y agoConstruct an self-reinforcing reality aimed at dismantling the current enabling structures. That's exactly as hard or as easy as it sounds.
- hellbannedguy 5y agoNonviolent protests don't seem to get much change. People get angry over years of absolute no change. It seems like there's a happy medium, as long as no one is killed. (The media usually sensationalizes the protest too. Hell---CVS planned on closing 200 California stores years ago. How do I know? I just know. I heard a spokesman for CVS claim that theft was the reason. When asked about which exact stores were hit hard--she didn't have an answer. When there's a violent protest, and the disenfranchised guys break a window and steal. The tv stations play the same isolated incident over, and over again.)
- hoseja 5y agoOccupy had a chance to maybe actually change something. Then one night, all the significant leaders were disappeared and nobody ever heard about it again, really.