This is such a good read Haroon. Ironically enough I am often debating the same logic in class, where the most viable solution is presented as doing away with the government. I prefer working with the system, fighting the small battles we can and paving the path for the larger ones to come. The government exists with its inefficiencies, the point is to engage with these inefficiencies and ensure that you make your way towards your north star. Anger and frustration at the system while very natural do very little to help the most vulnerable people.
This is such a good read Haroon. Ironically enough I am often debating the same logic in class, where the most viable solution is presented as doing away with the government. I prefer working with the system, fighting the small battles we can and paving the path for the larger ones to come. The government exists with its inefficiencies, the point is to engage with these inefficiencies and ensure that you make your way towards your north star. Anger and frustration at the system while very natural do very little to help the most vulnerable people.
This was really interesting to read especially through the frame of incentives.
Coincidentally just came across this on Antonio Gramsci and Walter Benjamin’s take on social change: https://www.instagram.com/p/DFoxzYCsiQ2/?igsh=OXA4Y2tocGx1Ym1n
(I wouldnt be so quick to dismiss the left! Liberals though are a different story…)
I really enjoyed the quotes you shared. Thank you! I've been meaning to read Gramsci, will get into it!
Agreed with the comment on the left. Maybe it's just disillusionment from a lack of action vs. how the right seems to keep gaining ground these days..