A different sort of recycling

[pecunium]

Lest 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.

Comments

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Oh but it fits me today! I overloaded. I'm almost better. I'll be ready to attack injustice again tomorrow, I think.

It just makes me tired, how much I'm loathed for my gender, that's all.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I confess, as I was making the intro, I realised you might think I was trying to buck you up, or something.

Someone else, actually, was trying to do that for me (been a rough week for my sense of all sorts of things).

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Well, it is a great recycled post, and it *did* buck me up, some.

Also, what bucks me up? Your posts generally, not just this one. Most (not all, but most) of the misogyny that was driving me crazy this week was being reported to me and torn up! taken down! ripped to shreds! by fabulous people like you, and others. So it's good that we are a community of fighters, because when one of us is a little tired of fighting, someone else picks it up.