The saddest thing, and excuse me if I’m sounding blunt or flippant.
But as I shake my head, what low levels of ok’ness so many American people have been conditioned & duped into believing that “as long as I’m not bothered” then it’s all good mentality.
Given the current & recent optics,
gas prices are getting some a little worked up about stuff.
But sadly I digress.
and they have no ability to do anything about it. how exactly is your average working person going to change gas prices? best they can do is try to drive less.
I think that might be the human condition in general, and why huge problems like climate change and economic collapse keep happening (almost) everywhere.
If last time’s violence was so great, why did we still get this time? And every other time before that where violence bought a reprieve during which evil was given every advantage to regain what it lost and more? It has never solved anything for longer than a generation, and even then deals were being made in secret to preserve the evil, by the very champions of “good”.
No solution is permanent. And violence isn’t technically the fix either.
The problem is you can’t solve certain problems from within the broken system. It’s possible to go outside the system but without violence but it’s rare. The violence is what enables outside system fixes to be possible and those have been of varied quality.
It’s not what we do when we’re violent, it’s what we do immediately afterwards that matters.
Nonviolence often just means you don’t get to make any meaningful changes at all, because they aren’t going to just let you vote them out of power and into to jail.
Because people stopped doing violence and said “violence is wrong, we can resolve the system through the system” except the system was captured by the rulers.
Just remember - we’ll get out of this the same way we got out of it the last time.
We’ll do it just as soon as enough folks realize last time wasn’t resolved peacefully.
you mean we’ll have an economic collapse followed by a world war?
The saddest thing, and excuse me if I’m sounding blunt or flippant. But as I shake my head, what low levels of ok’ness so many American people have been conditioned & duped into believing that “as long as I’m not bothered” then it’s all good mentality. Given the current & recent optics, gas prices are getting some a little worked up about stuff. But sadly I digress.
they don’t know it’s happening.
and they have no ability to do anything about it. how exactly is your average working person going to change gas prices? best they can do is try to drive less.
I think that might be the human condition in general, and why huge problems like climate change and economic collapse keep happening (almost) everywhere.
Ask McKinley how tariffs, imperialism, and abiding insurrection worked out for him.
If last time’s violence was so great, why did we still get this time? And every other time before that where violence bought a reprieve during which evil was given every advantage to regain what it lost and more? It has never solved anything for longer than a generation, and even then deals were being made in secret to preserve the evil, by the very champions of “good”.
No solution is permanent. And violence isn’t technically the fix either.
The problem is you can’t solve certain problems from within the broken system. It’s possible to go outside the system but without violence but it’s rare. The violence is what enables outside system fixes to be possible and those have been of varied quality.
It’s not what we do when we’re violent, it’s what we do immediately afterwards that matters.
Nonviolence often just means you don’t get to make any meaningful changes at all, because they aren’t going to just let you vote them out of power and into to jail.
Because people stopped doing violence and said “violence is wrong, we can resolve the system through the system” except the system was captured by the rulers.
Because people got tricked into thinking they could vote things better.