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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Thinking about this thread, and about the difference between world-facing and life-facing orientations. I've spent the short while of my adult life so far being entirely aware this was coming, but not doing anything about it.
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Vinay
@leashless
Activists just don't get it. The shit has *completely* hit the fan, politically speaking. Just wreckage. Technology is eating away at the fabric of society at an unbelievable rate. Future shock is here. And you think *politicians* are going to fix this? Or consumer choice? Ya
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
There are a string of reasons: - I lack the relevant technical expertise. - I had to shore up a lot of personal problems first - My contribution would inevitably be minor But with problems this scale, we need millions of people doing *something* to gain any traction at all.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Problems like this too big for the human mind. Everything breaks down as the little network fails to comprehend the scale. I'm guessing I've been thinking about this wrong: realistically, most of us will do little. But if you can solve a real problem, even a minor one, do so.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Not really sure how, if any way at all, an eclectic background in linguistics and psychology can be related to these problems. Maybe they can't, maybe they can. Probably best to find out. And if not, best to do something that could.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Fighting for your country is a lame reason to join a war, but just about everyone who goes voluntarily and isn't a psychopath has some simpler goal. Climate change will dwarf those concerns a thousand times over for the vast majority of us. It isn't even remotely close.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
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@Triquetrea
Without access to the right resources, I probably will not have any personal ability to do any technical work on this for a long while. I imagine that's true for a lot of people. But there are probably more useful forms of engagement than shouting into the void. Time to think.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
One thing I have noticed is that the people saying "we need to organize, now!" are pretty much never doing any actual organizing. All this work is done elsewhere, whether it's documentary filmmakers documenting man-made disasters (
@vonmeding
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Ben Schulz
@bnschlz
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@Triquetrea
I'd suggest it's almost purely political, but standard activism won't change things fast enough. Existing corporate interests have too much control over mainstream political parties.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
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@bnschlz
Technical in the sense of where to put your weight to make any kind of difference. Politics is a sinkhole at the moment. It will change if it has to, as it always has, seeing as it's a human edifice - but not just by lame-duck stuff like voting, buying into the current system...
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
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@juter
A lot of things will still go through politicians by necessity. You don't just cancel the state monopoly on violence without any hickups. I think the argument here is more about how to weight your effort. Very big proportion of mainly-political engagement.
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