I guess maybe the sobering part of this read was the fact that maybe revolution will take a lot longer than we thought...so maybe our focus should be on building alternate community institutions and forming connections instead of focusing on big events like protests.
These people are too disconnected from reality, too prideful of their "intelligence" and "success" from their tech startups, and have read too much Isaac Asimov. smh.
These ones might be smaller, but:
- Meet The Robinsons
- Tomorrowland
- Me. Peabody and Sherman
- Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
I think these movies were really good because they actually moved you, in their own little way.
I agree with this post you made. If the best we can do is vote into office a fairly old, out-of-tuoch president who has done a moderately decent job of running the United States, then it's a lose-lose situation for everyone. Politics especially in the United States has become too boring and safe. We need to take a risk on Cornell West and spice the game up a bit. Else we'll repeat the same mistakes we've been making for the past 50 years.
Edit; pls forgive my passion posting, whoops. Point is we need a shake up cuz stuff is going down the drain a little
I'm not sure, but if it gets the ability to sync comments and posts across instances, i'd love that feature!
Ooh, thanks for your analysis! I never considered the "lack of choices" perspective.
Yeah, i totally agree. Electoralisn is one path, however, if more people resist, it's a way better effort. The problem is just even getting people engaged right now. The main focus should be getting these structures and networks up and running, especially in underserved places like rural towns and impoverished areas.
At thsi point the only reasonable thing we can do is have a massive grossroots effort at local and state levels.
you're probably right about that, i never thought of it that way!
I really loved her video on the notion of love in our society, and it brought up some important points about how love is commoditized, and how we often have unrealistic expectations for it.
We need outoftheloop, or something like that for lemmy, i enjoy reading all the juicy drama thats bound to come from the wonderful concoction of early unstable-ish foss software and people problems.
Agreed, i have heard of dual power amd parallel power structures. We need a lot more of them.