Most people recognize that small actions, multiplied across millions of people, can produce massive change. What they don't realize is that the same logic works in reverse: small inactions, multiplied across millions of people, can allow massive harm to persist.
People tend to think that the ones who make society better are the government or someone else, and not ourselves. I want to change that mindset. It is everyone. It's every single person who can make society better and who can contribute to making society better.
I think a lot of people assume that the common good means finding the kind of least common denominator that we can agree in like just splitting the difference or kind of finding like going down to the basics. I think that is a huge mistake. The philosophers that I study and love the ancient Greeks like Aristotle believe that the common good the good itself is something that you're moving towards. It's like a common goal and nobody is there yet.
I think we've become complacent. I think we've taken a lot of our our norms and our rights for granted and that people I think people are complacent and I I'd like to think that the midterms will show maybe that they're not.
The mass mobilization strategy, is to get as many people into the streets as possible as quickly as possible and hope that the pillars defect is the least likely to succeed.
6mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
