Ugly realities of lasting societal change:
1: there will be no reckoning that feels fair
2: no one is coming to save us.
3: real change is boring, slow, and takes a lot of work.
If accountability at the top of society is structurally impossible, then the only rational and feasible option available to common people is to make the top matter less.
Community gardens
Mutual aid networks.
Housing, power, water, sewage, and food cooperatives.
People who are capable or are willing to become capable need to begin making this happen for themselves and one another.
The reality is that most people will not do this. That’s not a moral failing; it’s a constraint.
And because most people remain dependent on existing systems, those systems retain power and tax revenues...which is all they care about anyway.
That, paradoxically, is what allows parallel efforts to grow quietly, so long as they remain lawful (pay their taxes) and non-threatening.
In effect, those that will not undertake this unwittingly cover for those that will.
2: no one is coming to save us.
3: real change is boring, slow, and takes a lot of work.
If accountability at the top of society is structurally impossible, then the only rational and feasible option available to common people is to make the top matter less.
Community gardens
Mutual aid networks.
Housing, power, water, sewage, and food cooperatives.
People who are capable or are willing to become capable need to begin making this happen for themselves and one another.
The reality is that most people will not do this. That’s not a moral failing; it’s a constraint.
And because most people remain dependent on existing systems, those systems retain power and tax revenues...which is all they care about anyway.
That, paradoxically, is what allows parallel efforts to grow quietly, so long as they remain lawful (pay their taxes) and non-threatening.
In effect, those that will not undertake this unwittingly cover for those that will.
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