you CAN effect change, major change. You choose not to, which is fine. But a single person can most definitely change the world.
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Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 days ago
Well yeah. Like what else am i supposed to do? Why people online always have this delusion of grandeur that they have any power to change world wide politics? We are all completely meaningless cogs in the machine.
I still need food, clothes, shelter, warmth. To get those i need to either do it all myself like back in mediveal times, which is rather time, energy consuming/inefficient and unstable or exchange it with universal currency.
To get universal i need to exchange my time and skills for it aka work.
I’m not someone special, i cant change the world, i cant even get the snowball effect starting. I, as a single individual am completely meaningless in world scale politics. Best i can do is just adapt to changing circumstances and surive, maybe even help a people close to me/within my sphere of influence.
So yeah, i keep working like normal.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 3 days ago
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A single person can, but not every single person who chooses to is able to. You have to be born in very specific conditions or get very lucky to be able to enact meaningful change on a world scale.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
How. The world is in the state it’s in because rich and powerful people just do whatever the hell they want and ignore everyone else who protest.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean same but I still have that feeling of existential dread like … maybe we will all die tomorrow what does it all matter anyway. But I enjoy my work albeit with the nagging voice in the back of my head always telling me “there isnt much time left!”
BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You can definitely change the world, have you ever heard of history? It’s full of revolutions, the french revolution, the civil rights movement, the workers rights movement / unions. How do you think, we achieved this relatively good living standard in the last 50 years?
Shure, changing the world will be hard as fuck and it could be years until you see any positive change from your behaviour, maybe your actions will only bear fruit after you died.
But the only thing we can / we have to do is try.
And attitudes like yours are exactly what fascists are counting on.
If you don’t want to do anything and just stick your head into the sand, I can’t stop you, I guess, but stop pretending you didn’t have a choice.
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The difference in attitudes from a decade ago is 180 degrees backwards. Young people and academics are where revolutions begin or end. Those people have been demoralized and pacified.
BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You can still be part of the change.
And also that is a gross overgeneralisation, it’s not like schools were full of revolutionaries a decade ago, and today I definitely feel like more people are ready to do something, especially since Trump took office.
Just look at the success of Mamdani or the no Kings protests.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 days ago
This is the delusion im talking about. It’s completely baffling to me how people can take something that has a 99,99% failure rate and assume they’re the 0,01% and that’s not limited to politics. People constantly do it with every single aspect of life.
You’re using a survivorship bias and seeing only the ones that succeeded and ignoring all the ones that failed or didn’t even get off the ground to be heard of.
I’m fairly sure not a single one of those were started by a single individual either. These were all started by groups of like minded individuals and I’m not even in a country where there are enough people to get started with any movement.
I’m not sticking my head in the sand. I’m just not delusional to assume there’s a realistic possibility to affdct any change even if I’d were to dedicate rest of my life to it. I don’t assume I’m special.
We’re all just cogs in the machine. Yeah sure we can somewhat change in which part of the machine we are and have a cleaner conscious, but it will not stop the machine.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We can also somewhat break the undesired behaviour of the machine (be unreliable cogs). So yeah, a little freedom we have still
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 days ago
And how much of an effect beyond self satisfaction that has? It will more likely disproportionately effect people close to you/reliant on you than have any effect on the machine.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No. For people without needed capability (read: 99.(9) of all people on the planet) changing the world means “you will most likely die trying, and might amount to something, but may as well not”. And building said capability is again close to a full lifetime of work, if not more
BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I feel like, that’s exactly what I said
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Then I’ve misread you, as “you have a decent shot to do it if you try hard enough”. World won’t change much because of me, but I will make sure to be a drop of change for the better