Something I don't think people understand well that I feel like needs to be shared around: human logistics is important.
(Topics and language used limited to be less likely to be banned on corporate platforms, especially since I shared this on facebook)
This is the answer to basically every "Why aren't we doing anything?" topic.
If it requires people in groups, especially large groups, to do something then it runs into human logistics.
People are a chaotic bunch and lives are complicated, we do a lot of individual things... but if we need to do something together then it runs into complicated lives and chaotic thoughts/feelings.
If you've ever organized a D&D game or even just a board game night, you're well aware how hard it is to get people to coordinate and commit... now imagine if you try to organize this and people drop out, you and everyone involved go to prison and your families suffer...
So while it seems simple that people just need to do this thing together to solve a problem... it won't happen until either the immediate cost of not doing it becomes worse than failure or until a leader emerges that addresses the problems keeping people from joining and coordinates the group to act in unison.
The reason why the "You just need to solve this by voting!" crowd is in the wrong is because success there means organizing far far more people than any other means of fixing things. And there's already another organization leading that charge... poorly, so you've got to organize and lead so well that you drown out the multi-billion dollar political machine that's biggest interest is in shutting you down...
...and again, failure means things get worse. (See "Spoiled Election" if you want to learn more about this specific case)
And all of this is just the "lives are complicated" side of things, the "people are chaotic" side is also a hurdle. So many people agree something needs to be done, but if everyone insists it must be done a different way then it's not going to get done (ie. you get enough people to show up to your game night, but you fail because everyone spends the entire time arguing over what game to play)
So the takeaway of this is two things:
1) you're not going insane, you're just unfamiliar with human logistics and the ideas you've been taught have been carefully sanitized to erase the logistics so you're less able to repeat them (great example see Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott and how many of us were taught about the protest groups organizing carpools so people could still fulfill necessities while boycotting)
2) if you're charismatic you can start organizing efforts, you may not lead the big effort but you can get things started and you're critical to stopping the infighting by keeping everyone on the goal.
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