Wednesday lunch break --> taken from somebody's Internet comment and edited by me

[kanzeon_2040]

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

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[matrixmann]

The biggest error in thought in "trying to do something for the world getting better" is trying to solve all problems alone.
You'll need many other people which agree on the way to change something with you. You'll need a mass standing behind something - as a force to drive it forward as well as to make a single small act get on weight. Because many people do it too.
(Well, here often lies the problem... People cannot agree on something - cannot make the recognition collectively that something "works" or achieves the desired effect.)

I guess the politically-active and -interested Russians around here would tell you something like that too...

[kanzeon_2040]

Long ago I read a book called How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, and one of the author's points was that we waste a lot of time trying to influence collective action when we can often achieve results by acting unilaterally. Oh, it is still in print! From the first chapter of the Kindle sample:

"Hoping to be free, many people engage in continual social combat - joining movements, urging political action, writing letters to editors and Congressmen, trying to educate people. They hope that someday it will all prove to have been worthwhile.

But as the years go by they see little overall change. Small victories are won; defeats set them back. the world seems to continue on its path to wherever its going ... The plans, the movements, the crusades - none of these things has worked ... There must be a better way."

His punch line is that "Freedom is the opportunity to live your life as you want to live it." Basically, don't wait for everybody else, just be who you want to be, right now

[matrixmann]

The matter is very complicated, itself as well as to explain