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JA WestenbergThe easiest way to kill a movement? Convince people that if they can't do everything, they shouldn't do anything.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/on-ideological-purity/
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/on-ideological-purity/
Rev. Nogard_DWell said
David B. Himself@Daojoan Fully agreed. Also this ideological purity is always based on a very consumerist and individualist assumption. Large scale effective measures can only happen from political power, not from the magical thinking that everyone will individually do the right thing.
Grassroots Joe
Paul KulasHi Joan,
Grateful for your words.
Norman Finkelstein talked about this in yesterday’s Busboys and Poets talk with Nader Hashemi.
Iris@Daojoan Oh hey, I wrote an article about how to do this for my web hosting!
Migrating my website from Vercel to Hetzner Part 1 - OpenTofu and cloud-init | deadSimpleTech
As of this morning, my website is no longer hosted on Vercel, instead sitting on a Hetzner VM in Helsinki. My databases and similar shall hopefully soon follow, as part of my project of pulling all my infrastructure out of the USA. In the interests of other people who might want to do the same, I thought it would be wise to document what I did and why. So, to work!
Tina@Daojoan Thank you for spelling it out so clearly. Intention is important, self flagellation is not.
I think it's similar to food. I make an effort to eat a more plant based diet but I won't switch to plant milk for my coffee because I hate the taste (I tried multiple brands, it was different kinds of not tasty).
Liam Egan@LiamEgan Another line I'm drawing is cheese. That one is actually a much harder line than the coffee one. I'd rather give up coffee with milk and switch to black tea (where plant milk is fine) than giving up cheese completely. I know there are plant based options but most of them are either boring (cream cheese alternatives or the stuff you put on cheap pizza) or just awful (feta, cashew based camembert, etc.)
Hehoja
P. S. F.@Daojoan "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good"
mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickup@Daojoan
Read more or less truh it, and of course things only work out a step at a time.
I can't see your negative evaluation on not using all those services and tools. I only experience benefits by not using the app store, by choosing every time I join or integrate a new tool or service. For me it's always a win-win because I skip the part of enshitification "they" always add.
And I do use google search and YT, but actually their service is declining in a way that I'll have to move ..
Brian Johnson@Daojoan Very strongly agree with this. Thanks for putting into words, so eloquently, what I've had at the back of my mind for some time (on this current theme). And, probably, for many years in general.
Shonét@Daojoan this is great "Every step you take in the direction of your values matters. Every time you make a choice that reflects what you care about—even if it's small, even if it's incomplete, even if it feels incremental, marginal, unimportant—it reinforces something. Not just in the world, in yourself." 🙏🧡
Your article is an excellent read that personally addresses a few issues I am dealing with. Thanks !
"But the point isn't perfection. The point is intention.
You don’t have to be all or nothing. You don’t have to make every decision a moral battlefield. You don’t have to sever every tie to every compromised system - and you sure as hell don’t have to do it overnight.
You have to engage. You have to stay aware. You have to keep questioning the default."
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Mykola@Daojoan The easiest way to kill a movement is to lead it.
Aurin Azadî@Daojoan Thank you!
Anders Lagerfjärd@Daojoan Excellent! A little change is better than no change. One step at a time. And don’t judge.
GeofCoxOne interesting aspect of this is that the right demand purity from the left too. They're quick to reach for the charge of hypocrisy if you argue for better public transport but use a car - but if you give up the car they will charge you with 'virtue signalling' (even while they argue against public services while continuing to use the public roads).
The fact is we all have to live in the real world, even if we are working towards a better one.
Katika KühnreichThant you for your words on how to kill a movement @Daojoan
One of the best tactics of #Counterinsurgency is to make you belief that they have no chance, or, even worse: that it is too late for #resistance
Because if it is too late now - it means you are guilty. Because you have not done anything before
Do not let them do that to you
You can always #resist
And if it is just to change your breathing pattern to annoy them
Molly B@Daojoan Recently I was following a thread on r/anticonsumption about shopping at local stores with questionable (or unknown) hiring practices, political contributions, etc. vs national chains that are more transparent. It was really interesting to see just how many things are taken into consideration by a group of people who tend, individually, to think about the complexities of consumption.
PetterOfCats@Daojoan there's an old saying I wish more people would get: "don't let perfection get in the way of progress"
Mariaje Pérez@Daojoan Yes, yes, and yes. You read my mind. There are several people out there pushing for a certain ideal and demeaning those who can't or simply won't change for whatever reason, and that attitude won't help any positive change.
Small and steady steps will lead the journey, because that's what life is in many aspects (including our relationship with tech): a journey.