@NiveusLepus: I hear that every time, and alas, it usually winds up smoke. I understand the feeling and do respect the enthusiasm, though.
@thedisasterautist I have learned that existence and survival on its own can be an act of defiance.
As long as I am here, as long as I can help, I can do something. It might not be the scope of change i want, but I can make it better by degrees.
Together, we change the world, centimeters at a time perhaps, but those centimeters matter.
@NiveusLepus: I understand that. I was more referring to the militaristic, gung-ho style relayed in the graphic. Everyone gets all riled up on the endorphins in the moment, and then as the hours and days pass that energy dwindles, requiring some outrage farming to keep going. This increases stress and impatience, which then must be countered WHILE continuing to farm endorphins to maintain the energy, and eventually it becomes nothing more than the energy to be angry and disgruntled at how...
@NiveusLepus: ...much nothing is being accomplished but the all-capsing on social media and letting everyone know how angry they are and what they're gonna do... one day... when the day comes... and when and if they day finally arrives, they're running on fumes, which leads to more stress... and worse if and when they do not prevail or prevail enough because by that point they require perfection as a result. If not, the cycle starts over again.
@NiveusLepus: I'll put it this way and far more succinctly:
Everyone talks a mean game about resisting and standing up and being counted, but there was only one guy that did this...
@thedisasterautist Only one, and he has gone on to inspire the world, even though we don't know his name, or his ultimate fate.
That one moment, changed things far more than he could have ever imagined.
@NiveusLepus: My point was that it's usually only one person who Actually Shows Up... or perhaps a handful, when the shit actually goes down.
Everyone else stays home to "spread awareness" and to let everyone know THEY support the revolution or whatever and have supported it since day one.
Very few Americans on the Left tend to show up by their own volition when it counts. It takes a lot to move the middle of the bell curve. Most aren't the outliers they wish they were.
@thedisasterautist And this cycle will repeat until the anger translates to momentum.
@NiveusLepus: Social media and the 24/7/365 news cycle inhibits it. Both drive impatience and backfootedness. You can't coordinate and plan meaningfully when information is chaotic, coming in from every direction, full of distractions, and everyone is hung up on "Now! Now! Now!" and addicted to endorphin hits from the constant news barrage, comments barrage, and screams for immediacy. Easy AF to derail that fucktangle.
@NiveusLepus: I am myself a fan of deliberation and as such am and always have been highly unfashionable, even though my batting average on things is quite high, not that that does any good.