feeling lost...
I seem to go through very intense cycles of deranged optimism and merciless pessimism these days.
One minute I'll be thinking things just can't last the way they are; that sooner or later things have to break down, people have to rebel. Periods of extreme conventionality do tend to precede periods of social revolution, after all. And I get into ( Read more... )
One minute I'll be thinking things just can't last the way they are; that sooner or later things have to break down, people have to rebel. Periods of extreme conventionality do tend to precede periods of social revolution, after all. And I get into ( Read more... )
As for global warming...I honestly lost interest in it. Sure the earth is in some sort of spiraling abyss towards a dead rock it could become...but I'm doing my part, I recycle, reuse...I don't know about reducing, but I take the bus instead of driving if I can...so I'm sure that helps bits...but what more could I possibly do? Soap boxing really only makes people hate you THAT much more, or ignore you. You can't FORCE people to do their part, trust me >_> I was in all those lectures about recycling and saving the earth and I found them god-awful boring, so someone who never recycles or whatever would find it MORE so, and may never do it.
Or they may...who knows?
As for leadership...I mean...you're the proverbial brains behind this outfit! You could very well tell someone who didn't mind being used as your tool for a day what to say! You just need to find that person who will take your speech about peace on earth (or whatever it is...)and read it outloud for everyone to hear...(note I didn't say listen, I only said hear).
As for being trapped...my suggestion is suffer through a mundane 9-5 job for 6 months and save everything, spend like 20$ here and there but nothing more, then just...leave. You'll have enough to live off of (assumably) for 6months, enough to go to Europe, or somewhere you like, and start a new life as a little known author that enjoys her days in a used book store reading old books until one day you happen across a man sitting in an over stuffed chair by the wall and you fall madly in love!
Or...you know...return to england and your faerie world of living in butter...or however that went.
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The thing is, it really does make a difference, soap-boxing - it's just its a really small, terribly gradual difference, and people don't tend to notice. For example: all of the major grocery stores have big organic sections now, and a lot of people are buying from them, but nobody will admit that environmentalists have played a part in this change, and nobody will admit that "organic produce" was essentially unheard of only a few decades ago. So, you know, lecturing pays off...and I don't care if they hate me for it!
The problem is that you really need someone very charismatic for such things, and part of a persons charisma, I think, comes from being genuine. So, reciting speechs isn't really the key...Maybe I just need to find someone like that who I can bounce ideas off of...
As for that last bit - that is essentially my plan (only with part time work) - except for the small problem of not being able to get a job in the first place! =) Still, I liked the bit about the man in the overstuffed chair...
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