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fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year agoOh, of course, it’s always related to material conditions, regardless of personal motivations. People will always do their best with what they know and have immediate access to, angry people online have my sympathies. I realise that some people just need to vent when I get a shitty comment, so I never take it super personally anymore. No matter what field you are in, if you create conditions for something living to flourish, it will pay back your investment tenfold, which makes the current modus operandi of short-term capital gain at all cost ever more tragic.
Food for thought:
Nothing will get better until we decide we want something different, collectively, en masse.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And social conditions too, but yeah, ultimately.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
That Harvard link covers that quite a bit!
Candelestine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My main gripe with essays like this is the lack of sound ideas on how to realistically move forward. “If everyone would…” just isn’t good enough, and won’t be without a cataclysmic upheaval or extraordinary luck.
The spread of ideas like these is very easy to manage. You provide an easier to understand scapegoat and lean on people’s laziness and mild preferences. Jewish people, for instance, have been extremely convenient for this, much to their detriment.
You can’t educate people that hate education and complex thinking, either. How could we resolve this?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
That essay’s purpose was to lay out the problem; it’s pretty dated now and wasn’t as common in public discourse as it is now, but it still holds up for articulating the situation itself. I give people this one for what to do: effectiveactivist.com/intro/. People are building the world they want to see in the ways they can, consciously and unconsciously, premeditatedly and opportunistically. It is never the act of one person; it is a trend of actions. Act local, think global. en.wikipedia.org/…/Think_globally%2C_act_locally