posts/for the purpose of no purpose

mini-essays https://coda.io/d/Blog-Posts_dYsYg7d1EIu/For-the-Purpose-of-No-Purpose_suUXZ#_luo-d trend of always being negative and being pessimistic and having no hope political nihilism. We just have to be against everything because we don’t believe it will work, because we’ve stopped believing in the possibility of change due to constantly being betrayed and let down and just want revenge for all the empty promises and false pretenses. ideas talk about tendency to complain and living in scarcity and the real solution to our problems in context of the people responsible for changing things not holding up their end of the bargain It seemed as if America was becoming a country that no longer believed in itself. “We can’t, we can’t, we can’t. Let’s not do that rail project because it’s not going to work. (Location 5226) ^m4wUpIte5 let’s practice practical optimism. When something angers you or you want to complain about something, the only way to fight it is to build its time to build

• two ways of fighting for change: 1) from within the system slowly shifting the Overton window to try to make incremental change and 2) from outside the system and aiming to overthrow and rehaul the current system. This is from the ability to build something now, but needs to be done in a way in conjunction with and ultimately for the community
  • Tools are nothing taken out of context of the community they are meant to serve. Revolutionary tools need to change culture. permanent [[jason yuan on Metamuse - Rethinking the OS#^dQipcX_G0]]
• we want to be blind to our problems, we want to just be nihilistic and angry at everything and complain instead of changing things.
  • Confronting hard problem sand advocating for real, hard change is very hard compared to the easy route of just complaining permanent
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  • ostrich effect demonstrates this, the tendency to stick our heads in the sand when things get really tough and we’re forced into a scarcity mindset
  • most Americans no longer trusted reporters like him, what was the alternative? Who else was going to be the public’s eyes and ears? He didn’t see Daily Kos or Red State at city hall, he didn’t see Google or Facebook at the county commission. (Location 5257) ^TttUeM_CG