My first step:
So, I'm a depressed/depressing individual. Which is not to say that I'm depressed all the time. Far from it, in fact. And in recent years, I haven't been that so much. I still have my funks, but I'm putting my shit together, and it's getting better.
Thing is, when you aren't getting depressed because you think your life sucks, you can start to use depression as a tool to understand when something has really upset you.
I started listening to audio books/performances by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. I got depressed really really quick...and I've also considered becoming a libertarian anarchist.
The Short Version: The march of history shows us that things get better. It also shows us that things got better because someone (Malcolm X, Gandhi, MLK, Joe Hill, John Howard Griffin, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Galileo, Martin Luther, Steven Biko, Benzair Bhutto, etc.) stepped up and did something about it, leading us all towards a better tomorrow.
For a long time now, I've been stymied as to what to do in order to help push forward the cause of humanity, in order to help end suffering. There's a very real laziness on my part. I'm a consumer, part of a consumer culture. I have my hands full trying to balance my job with my expenses and my inability to change, so while I could do more, there's also the real question of what I could do that wouldn't be a waste. So I've thought about it, and procrastinated, and finally, I let someone else tell me how to get started.
This is my first step. This is a video on Global Climate Change. Please, watch it, and then post it (or a link to it) in your own blog. Get people talking about it. It doesn't matter if the climate is going to go bonkers on us, it matters how well we're prepared in case it does happen.
I want a better tomorrow. This is my first step.
Thing is, when you aren't getting depressed because you think your life sucks, you can start to use depression as a tool to understand when something has really upset you.
I started listening to audio books/performances by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. I got depressed really really quick...and I've also considered becoming a libertarian anarchist.
The Short Version: The march of history shows us that things get better. It also shows us that things got better because someone (Malcolm X, Gandhi, MLK, Joe Hill, John Howard Griffin, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Galileo, Martin Luther, Steven Biko, Benzair Bhutto, etc.) stepped up and did something about it, leading us all towards a better tomorrow.
For a long time now, I've been stymied as to what to do in order to help push forward the cause of humanity, in order to help end suffering. There's a very real laziness on my part. I'm a consumer, part of a consumer culture. I have my hands full trying to balance my job with my expenses and my inability to change, so while I could do more, there's also the real question of what I could do that wouldn't be a waste. So I've thought about it, and procrastinated, and finally, I let someone else tell me how to get started.
This is my first step. This is a video on Global Climate Change. Please, watch it, and then post it (or a link to it) in your own blog. Get people talking about it. It doesn't matter if the climate is going to go bonkers on us, it matters how well we're prepared in case it does happen.
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