This post is spot on, too often people just assume we can do nothing to change the world, but we are the change. We've been giving away our power to politicians, we believe that they are in charge, powerful, and entrenched, and so they are.
There is great power in belief and thought, and the way we've been raised we assume our beliefs and thoughts to be true. We think they are our thoughts, but they've typically been planted there, just like we think a single figre may swoop in and save the day.
The way I like to look at super hero movies is that the hero is me, the hero is you, every one of us is the hero. We need to start believing that, we need to start believing we can make great change ourselves and come up with solutions to the world's problems.
Blockchain is a great step in that direction, it's enabling us to create change more than ever. People just need to realize it, then put the work in to be a part of it.
Nice article!
Also, from the book Ideal made Real:
"To resist evil is to increase the power of evil." "You give your energy to that which you resist."
Resisting something just keeps it around, we need to learn to remove our attention from these sources in order to remove their power, attention is everything, stop paying attention to things that you don't want in your life. Put your attention towards fixing the problem instead of why the problem is there in the first place. This is what is happening with blockchain, focus here and on other efforts to improve quality of life. My 2 cents.
Yes, in this sense we need to focus time, money and sustained energy into projects that have the most potential to allow people to prosper and strengthen communities.
I think you've identified one of the major obstacles that people have is that the corporatist state and media dictate what and how we should think about things.
The blockchain is a good example of this as we can build alternatives systems together but I also feel like this has to happen in physical communities at the same time. People need to find common ground and work towards the kind of world we'd like to live in.
The question is, what's that going to take? We need people to wake up and realize we are in it together, the only thing they can do is try to divide us.
To be completely honest, it's probably going to require things to get worse before they get better. It may be necessary for some sort of cataclysmic event to take place to shake people out of their complacency. I hope I'm wrong.
unfortunately, i more or less agree... i also came to that conclusion.. and even posted a fictional story about it.. im hoping change comes in a way that can crush the existing paradigm with minimal casualties.. there are options luckily, not that we get to choose them!
or do we!
One non-violent non cataclysmic option that came to me when i wrote that post was that IF Whistleblowing went Viral, that would totally crumble the whole perception of everything en-mass and would lead to an overnight revolution.
Imagine if one special hero from every strata of power, and every big company came out and told the truth or even a small percentage of the truth!! It would be a frenzy and i believe the start of great change! These things happen when the time is right, just as it is now with sexism and abuse.
@jakeybrown—I like your version better of what the superhero represents :), but I wholeheartedly agree with the premise of your post @v4vapid and both of your conclusions.
In a republic, where people are elected to do the will of the people so the people can go about their lives, the potential for said representatives to basically do their own will always exist. Moreso if we just let them.
Unfortunately, in a true democracy, where everyone has a say in everything, there's also the chance that a few will rise to the top and control everything.
So, either way we go, there's potential for tyranny and oppression—it's just a step or two longer to get there.
We the people need to remain vigilant, rise up when necessary, and keep any would be leader in check. The blame falls squarely upon us if we fail to act or we abdicate our natural rights and responsibilities.
Agreed, we need to stop blaming others