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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Our individual actions matters little but collectively, we impact the world around us whether we like it or not. This is a two edged sword. In return, we are shaped by the world around us. Even by choosing not to participate in society, your absence will create a ripple that affects others. Even in death, your molecules will recycle and end up in new life.
I'll give you that. And it's a very good point. I'd like to take you ripple analogy and use it.
A pebble can make a ripple. A handful of pebbles can make a bigger ripple, and without interference, that ripple can travel a good distance.
But what kind of ripple can a Boulder make? What about a bunch of boulders? What if a bunch of boulders are dropped in the water the same time the handful of pebbles are? Sure. Add more pebbles. The pebbles ripple gets bigger, but then more boulders drop in the water. The logical response would be add more pebbles.
Suddenly you realize that you are about to displace all the water, but more boulders keep coming. You stop adding pebbles and that slows it down, but boulders keep coming. You can't stop them until finally all the water is gone.
What should you have done different?
The problem with this is, once you're doing everything you possibly can on your individual level, you quickly see that so many others won't bother to lift a finger, or even work actively to undo all the progress. This is extremely demotivating.
I don't drive, I don't fly, I don't buy fast fashion (or barely any clothes at all), I live in a small apartment, I changed all lighting to LED-s years ago, I don't eat meat, I'm starting to smarten up my home with automation to squeeze out a little bit more energy savings.
And it doesn't help jack shit since it is impossible to get even 50% of people in the developed nations to live like that and even if we could, one multinational megacorporation still manages to do more damage than an average European country.
Sure, we could start petitions—these will be simply ignored. We could come to streets in protest—just to be beaten up by class traitors and new legislation coming in criminalizing protests and throwing anyone who dares into jail for 10+ years. Nothing will change for the world.
From this point on, the only way anyone could change anything would be to actually blow shit up—not once, but all the time, everywhere, until no polluting industry is left. That's clearly not possible to do in the era of mass surveillance.