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lazy activism
Aug. 6th, 2007 10:17 pmAfter finally getting a "politics" icon soon after "V for Vendetta" came out last year (thanks ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
betnoir) I find I'm almost never making the political posts I told myself I'd write in lieu of yet another quiz or clicky thing :P
It's not that I'm not paying attention to the national stage anymore, far from it. Several of y'all write political posts and I do read them - 95% of the time you're preaching to my personal choir. I don't often comment because y'all don't need a dozen "me too!" comments, and I seldom write anything myself because y'all are often better writers making the same points with far greater fluency than I can muster (exhibit A: excessive use of "y'all" in this paragraph :P)
Sadly, I think I'm developing a tolerance to near constant outrage. I wish I could continue to be surprised by what the neo cons/Christian fundamentalists/intelligent design-ists/etc. say and do, but I'm just not anymore. I'm still angry, but not in the "fire under my seat" way I used to be. Maybe I'm just getting old or maybe this is a new definition of normal that I'm shockingly used to.
I do fill out (online) petitions and send (email) letters to my representatives, but I know that these are feeble efforts, truly the very least I can do, but sending paper letters wouldn't feel like much bigger of a drop in the bucket to me; it would just net another form letter from [insert rep here]'s office to clutter up my garbage can.
And even as I would like to do more I hold back because in practice just reading about it feeds my preexisting "bunker mentality" and I've been making an effort to try to be happier in the life I have, because lightheartedness and generosity on a day to day level somehow feels like it will have more impact in the long run.
If you want to flame me for my apathy, fire away - I probably do deserve it. If you have suggestions I could act on without becoming even more cynical, I'd love to hear them.
betnoir) I find I'm almost never making the political posts I told myself I'd write in lieu of yet another quiz or clicky thing :PIt's not that I'm not paying attention to the national stage anymore, far from it. Several of y'all write political posts and I do read them - 95% of the time you're preaching to my personal choir. I don't often comment because y'all don't need a dozen "me too!" comments, and I seldom write anything myself because y'all are often better writers making the same points with far greater fluency than I can muster (exhibit A: excessive use of "y'all" in this paragraph :P)
Sadly, I think I'm developing a tolerance to near constant outrage. I wish I could continue to be surprised by what the neo cons/Christian fundamentalists/intelligent design-ists/etc. say and do, but I'm just not anymore. I'm still angry, but not in the "fire under my seat" way I used to be. Maybe I'm just getting old or maybe this is a new definition of normal that I'm shockingly used to.
I do fill out (online) petitions and send (email) letters to my representatives, but I know that these are feeble efforts, truly the very least I can do, but sending paper letters wouldn't feel like much bigger of a drop in the bucket to me; it would just net another form letter from [insert rep here]'s office to clutter up my garbage can.
And even as I would like to do more I hold back because in practice just reading about it feeds my preexisting "bunker mentality" and I've been making an effort to try to be happier in the life I have, because lightheartedness and generosity on a day to day level somehow feels like it will have more impact in the long run.
If you want to flame me for my apathy, fire away - I probably do deserve it. If you have suggestions I could act on without becoming even more cynical, I'd love to hear them.
