Man of action
How about being more constructive?
Believe it or not, yesterday’s post was supposed to be a declaration of how I want to stop merely analysing the shit going on in the world from a visceral perspective and start proposing ways of putting that shit where it belongs. Whether that means the rubbish bin or the compost bin.
I am still being flooded with local and international news that serves as a reminder of just how insignificant individual voices, and even collective ones, can be when they are not out in the streets and/or on the evening news demanding change. Whatever that change may be. As long as it alters the path we are currently taking, the risk is preferable to stagnation.
It is very difficult for change to happen when no one proposes it. I can analyse whatever situations happen to appear in front of me. None of those analyses actually move anything forward if all they produce is recognition or knowledge without any kind of action.
In my day-to-day life, that is what I try to do. The little I do is already enough for people to call me a "man of action". I analyse the small problems around me and do whatever I can to solve them. Some solutions are postponed because of a lack of time and resources. Others because of laziness. Many are discarded because they are not really solutions at all, merely an urge to change something for the sake of change.
Politically speaking, these things are much more difficult. I can always join a group of people like me in a non-partisan movement, because no political party in the country where I live fully represents me. Even one of those movements would not be a perfect fit, but a collective is always a "megaphone" for voices that believe themselves to be individual and, in the end, are not.
But the proposal here is to stop merely complaining about and lamenting the decline of Western society. Yes, we are all in decline. Is that really something that concerns me? Frankly, it is, if we think in terms of historical justice. But in a scenario that is not necessarily ideal, yet perhaps still attainable, in which highly conservative societies manage to begin a kind of "mea culpa" over the history that brought them to such lofty heights - and the consequently dramatic fall brought about by the decisions of the present -, we cannot afford to waste the opportunity.
Everything is still very marginal. I do not expect to lead anything aimed at improving society as a whole, even though I happen to be at the forefront of one specific movement that may help a reasonable number of people in this burgh they call a country. But there is a reason you eat a hot dish from the edges inward.