Am I projecting? What do you think, fellow lemmings?

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    Our wealth is taken, no one does anything.

    Our health is taken, no one does anything.

    Our privacy is taken, no one does anything.

    Our voices are taken, no one does anything.

    Our citizenships are taken, no one does anything.

    The reason is apathy, which feeds inability, which feeds apathy, which feeds inability to do anything.

    When our lives are taken, most people will be both ultimately unable and unwilling to do anything.

    Even if people don’t know it outright, they feel it.

    More than this, we feel a disappointment and a shame in our bones that can’t be shaken off because it is that outrageous and primal fear of losing anything more that drives our inaction, and so we feel ourselves to be cowards at our very core.

    This is what grinds away at our souls daily.

    When you eventually decide to do something, you will see you are no longer apathetic or unable. Your fears will begin to heal, and in this way it will save your soul. This is the power of courage. It is something you have to make for yourself, but hope is what drives it and hope is given.

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      I think apathy is a part of it, but its not that people shrug and arent moved by whats happening. They dont have anything meaningful or tolerable they can do about anything

      • golden_zealot@lemmy.ml
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        4 hours ago

        You may be right, but I’m not sure which comparisons you are making specifically and am interested to hear what they are if you are interested in explaining them to me.