Wednesday lunch break --> taken from somebody's Internet comment and edited by me
The first time we encounter a homeless person becomes a formative moment in our lives, and the explanation we hear from our guardians goes a long way in shaping our subsequent world view.
"Clearly this person needs help - who should help ( Read more... )
"Clearly this person needs help - who should help ( Read more... )
Even the more if you don't want to talk through a detailed example. - Which I don't want to, I want to keep this private.
But, well, some general things that I can tell here is - as my brain thinks it has made a bit of experience in this matter:
If you try to change everything on your own, you're damned to fail. - Because, why should people listen to you? Why should they care? The keeps on spinning without your ideas, even without your physical presence.
Frustrated by the meaninglessness, a single person sooner or later has to turn to more extreme means - either for the attention to one's ideas as well as to enforce anything of that.
And that will be the decisive point where you're going to lose: People don't care about your ideas, you literally have to push yourself on them, but in one or the other way, this will end in terrorism. Be that the violent kind or where you simply "get on peoples' nerves".
And then people have every right in the world to tell you to fuck off and the police has every right to arrest or even kill you. Because you disturb the peace of society. Because you try to coerce them into doing something and adopting a particular mindset that they don't have and don't want, which they even might deem "illogical" or "destructive to oneself".
The difference kicks in here if you find masses of people who voluntarily go along and share similar ideas and methods to achive the goal. And if telling people the situation sparks them to behave in a particular unified way.
The latter is something which they have said about the people in Eastern Ukraine, for example, or in communist times when fractions came that wanted to destroy peoples' way of life and the standard they have erected with their own hands.
The situation consisted of a certain constellation, and people somehow quickly came to a conclusion that was collectively shared.
Like, if you experience a situation in which "all around me there were people who went through the same misery, it required no words for us to share the pain and to be a mental aid to each other".
That made them head into a specific direction of acting and taking measures - and so change became real on a large scale.
...What is very needed to spark such a phenomenon, from my point of view, is: You need something that makes people connect and instinctively feel like they know what to do - and what they think they need to do definitely is the right to do. Like the correct answer to "Where?" is to answer with a place and its name.
...When I get down to the very core of my personal stuff (you can read this), I think I'll head to explain a lot about such political stuff then and what my brain learned how this thing of "lasting resistence" and "bringing change from a small group to society" works, in my view. And what is going significantly wrong in Western societies who absorbed the myth of "single voices matter like the weight of a whole army" in this point.
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