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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I agree Ds are willing to compromise and Rs are not.
I prefer working outside the system because the system is sclerotic, and designed to preserve the current status quo (all established systems do this, of course). If the system is built to fuck you, or is regularly fucking you, you don’t benefit from fighting within it. You need to disrupt it. Or destroy it.
All great and important change is created by challenging, sabotaging, or subverting systems. What’s tech but a giant system disruption?
Grieving your issues within the redress procedures of a society won’t change that society quickly and in any significant fashion. If you’re being screwed unfairly under the current governing structures, the only real redress is to seek to avoid, destroy, or render ineffectual those structures.
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"Disruption." You are devolving into one of those hacks who gives motivational speeches as a thinly disguised marketing scheme to sell his motivational books, and who energetically, engagingly, and meaninglessly strings together a bunch of the latest buzzwords to the frequent applause of the morons who have gathered in some convention center in order to get inspired to get their lives on track, and maybe buy a really great book from an engaging motivational speaker.
My college roommate's brother was an electrical engineering major set to graduate with honors, but became more and more involved in homeless advocacy and anarchism, and eventually dropped out of school with one semester to go to work full time at food shelves, soup kitchens, etc. But he found these organizations to be too bureaucratic and tied to The System, so he and his little band of anarchist followers would break into one of the many crack houses not far from campus, and he would hack into the electrical and water systems and create underground homeless shelters, in which he himself also lived. He was working outside the system. I have my doubts that you are also working outside the system in the same or similar sort of way, but I guess I don't know.
