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Would this work in a different way? 3.5% changing themselves? Protesting to me has always felt like you are forcing things to happen, but the same bureaucracy
by skilled 2y ago
Would this work in a different way? 3.5% changing themselves?
Protesting to me has always felt like you are forcing things to happen, but the same bureaucracy that controls the decisions at the very top is still there.
Could 12 million Americans (3.5%) who are selfless and self-aware change the entire country around them? I would love a study on something like this, even if it is for a relatively small city/country.
- fuzzfactor 2y agoNot directly relating to protest, but sometimes people vote with their wallet, sometimes with their feet, other times at the actual ballot box. Seems like 3.5% could also be a pretty good estimate of how many voters or less make all the decisions when it comes to less-publicized local elections. How about 12 million who are selfish and unempathetic when it comes to very many of their fellow Americans?
- cristoperb 2y agoThat reminds me Tolstoy's conclusion in his essay on Anarchism: "There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-on-anarchy https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-on-anarc...