I also get swamped with downvotes when I tell people the objective fact that far, far more of us are responsible for the state of things than anyone wants to admit.
The chief sin we all carry is lack of involvement with our local and state governing, or even just basic community-building. We ignored warning signs, we set the problems aside in our every-day life. We didn’t organize ahead of time when we saw redpill kids rising in numbers across online spaces and Donald Trump memes growing in popularity. We didn’t push in a real-world way to mitigate the harm being done by outside influences, misinformation and online grifting of our feelings.
Imagine if more of us volunteered to serve on school boards and had a voice in those spaces and said “Hey, I’m seeing a LOT of young guys right now online saying they just hate women and dating and hate themselves, like, it’s growing, we really need to get ahead of this and start talking to the students here, maybe some after-school reach out and structured life-coaching before these young guys start going to washed-out British kickboxers for help.”
Would it have changed the world? Probably not, but it all adds up, every thing we can do helps towards making a better future, it doesn’t have to be a singular action that shakes up the status-quo.
Agreed, no singular action got us here, and no singular action will fix it. I’d like to believe, independently we all mean well and thought we were doing enough. As a whole, we did not. No one person is going to fix this, we need to work together to make this better, regardless of who we feel us at fault. Saying sorry or yelling “not it!” helped get us here. Let’s all be part of the solution, being complacent is exacerbating the problem.
I also get swamped with downvotes when I tell people the objective fact that far, far more of us are responsible for the state of things than anyone wants to admit.
The chief sin we all carry is lack of involvement with our local and state governing, or even just basic community-building. We ignored warning signs, we set the problems aside in our every-day life. We didn’t organize ahead of time when we saw redpill kids rising in numbers across online spaces and Donald Trump memes growing in popularity. We didn’t push in a real-world way to mitigate the harm being done by outside influences, misinformation and online grifting of our feelings.
Imagine if more of us volunteered to serve on school boards and had a voice in those spaces and said “Hey, I’m seeing a LOT of young guys right now online saying they just hate women and dating and hate themselves, like, it’s growing, we really need to get ahead of this and start talking to the students here, maybe some after-school reach out and structured life-coaching before these young guys start going to washed-out British kickboxers for help.”
Would it have changed the world? Probably not, but it all adds up, every thing we can do helps towards making a better future, it doesn’t have to be a singular action that shakes up the status-quo.
Agreed, no singular action got us here, and no singular action will fix it. I’d like to believe, independently we all mean well and thought we were doing enough. As a whole, we did not. No one person is going to fix this, we need to work together to make this better, regardless of who we feel us at fault. Saying sorry or yelling “not it!” helped get us here. Let’s all be part of the solution, being complacent is exacerbating the problem.