photographthesun;324608 wrote:
Im not convinced, I didnt believe the stop the war march would stop the war, but to say I didnt contribute when I spent the day marching and what not seems odd logic.
I never said you didn’t contribute, I said for some people it’s an excuse.
Anyway, as I’ve already stated, social change is a long-term ambition, hundreds of horrific events will happen until the day when it becomes no longer acceptable for world leaders to get away with things.
And spending a day marching is all fine and dandy, but it’s not realistically going to do anything. People need to change things in their local community through activism in small ways every day, not just turn up once a year to a mass protest.
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Surly it depends on so many factors to boil it down to, if people just beleived then it will happen, well its just seems a bit Disney to me. *shrugs* dunno
I think you’re entirely missing my point. I’m not some kind of unrealistic fluffy hippy that believes “if we simply believe it will change” and goes and sits up a fucking tree.
I’m saying you have to have belief to be an activist every day, you have to have belief otherwise you obviously wouldn’t do it. Anyone working for local change in their own communities, be it climate change, social exclusion, equality… they will all see set-backs and countless frustrations, but they obviously have to believe that someday things will change otherwise they’d give up contributing to that someday.
