If you can tell me how to un-fuck this nation in a way that will actually wake people up
People are already Woke Up. They’re still powerless.
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orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago“mOsT aMeRiCaNs…”
Blah, blah, blah. If you can tell me how to un-fuck this nation in a way that will actually wake people up, I’m all ears. But the way I see it, these things were insidiously marketed to the whole country slowly and incrementally, like frog in a slowly warming pot of water. Those of us who jumped out of the pot are watching in horror as the rest get boiled alive.
The problem is, frogs don’t have opposable thumbs and we can’t turn the gas off - so the pot keeps boiling.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Agreed. We’re partially awake.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yeah right. Almost half the people I talk to are not happy but are burning their heads in the sand and waiting/hoping for this to blow over. It can’t happen here and all that.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
burning their heads in the sand
Ouch, sounds painful.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Powerless?
Or is it learned helplessness?
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s exactly that.
danh2os@piefed.social 2 days ago
This doesn’t happen in a bubble though. We need those people too. We need each other.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
We’re still in the pot, dude. It’s a double-boiler, we only jumped out of the inner chamber where even the metal on the bottom doesn’t go above boiling temperature…
foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
The best you and I can do is to look out for each other, our friends and family and help anyone else that manages to escape the pot as quickly as possible so they don’t get back in…
My thoughts are that people are animals and they’ll follow where the majority go, so keep helping others escape the pot and eventually, more will notice there is an exit option and jump as well.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
At the moment, I see this as the only real answer. Until there’s proper organization and resistance, everything is lip service.
Mobilization is easy - the protests and marches get people together in solidarity. But organization takes effort: it takes talking to people, getting numbers/contact info, making plans and deciding what’s next…