A different sort of recycling
Apr. 23rd, 2009 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumLest one burn out, suffer, "outrage fatigue" [or as anton_p_nym suggests in comments, "courage fatigue" with which I have, at times, wrestled] or just generally lose the spark of active engagement (and no, this isn't directed at anyone). I was reminded of a post matociquala wrote a few years ago.
How to Change the World
I'm tired of facile cynicism. I'm especially tired of the defensive species of facile cynicism in which the cynic finds it necessary to attack or dismiss anybody who is trying to make a difference.
And make no mistake; it is a self-defense mechanism. If you don't reach you cannot fall. It's true. And if you don't fall, you won't get hurt. And you'll never have to make a hard decision between two choices that suck.
Comfortable. Safe.
But I can tell you how to change the world.
anton_p_nym suggests in comments, "courage fatigue" with which I have, at times, wrestled] or just generally lose the spark of active engagement (and no, this isn't directed at anyone). I was reminded of a post matociquala wrote a few years ago.How to Change the World
I'm tired of facile cynicism. I'm especially tired of the defensive species of facile cynicism in which the cynic finds it necessary to attack or dismiss anybody who is trying to make a difference.
And make no mistake; it is a self-defense mechanism. If you don't reach you cannot fall. It's true. And if you don't fall, you won't get hurt. And you'll never have to make a hard decision between two choices that suck.
Comfortable. Safe.
But I can tell you how to change the world.
