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> To combat this lots of people need to do activism. Those people need to devote your time and energy to prevent such thing. I did the activism. I did the walk
by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> To combat this lots of people need to do activism. Those people need to devote your time and energy to prevent such thing.
I did the activism. I did the walk so I'm going to talk the talk here.
The problem is only an utterly microscopic number of people will actually do anything. A larger proportion will, to some degree inform themselves of the issue but still do nothing. An even larger number will simply complain on a forum and call for other people to get stuff done but do nothing (looking at you@irusensei).
It takes a remarkably small number of people to make a difference, but IRL the number who will do something is even smaller so nothing happens. Those that do, like me, end up exhausted and despairing, feeling we've wasted a fair chunk of our lives, and had there been just a few other people willing to involve themselves things might be different, but that didn't happen.
If you want change it's there for the taking. But you won't.
- madacol 3y agowhen you "do something" what are you talking about?, can you give me a couple of examples please?
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoJoin an organisation and work actively with them (just joining is doing nothing). Contact MPs or other representatives[1]. Contact relevant bodies and pressure them. Give cash (making sure it gets used wisely). Offering your skills as a professional, where relevant. [1] Despite what people say, this works, if slowly.
- madacol 3y agoI personally feel powerless, or that it requires a huge amount of work to have a significant impact. If what you say is true, It could be very persuasive to inform about the expected impact a single person could have by just doing X. For example, describing how contacting MPs work, why would they care about what I say? giving a specific example, with rough estimates of number of people that need to contact or if it's more important the words chosen to achieve impact I would be interested in reading a good blog post describing the expected impact of activism in politics, especially on topics that I really care about, like privacy and freedom. I want to know what powers I have to change the things I care!
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoIf you care then just do something. I've said enough. It's cost me enough.