Reply #64: "Society" is a bland, faceless thing, like fighting smoke.

[tomreedtoon]

Remember what society is. Society is simply a concept, a way to classify a whole lot of individual people. There's nobody that "controls" society.

There are institutions that affect this concept called "society," and those can be addressed. I particularly care about media control. The media are owned by people who have manipulated us through fear, and made a lot of people make bad decisions - Bush being one of them. And I'm sure you probably have other institutions in mind.

But talking about a gigantic concept like "society" makes it impossible to change, so you and your desires will always succumb to victimhood. It's terribly easy to be a victim; for years the posts in DU were continuous cries of victimhood, with people complaining they couldn't stop this monster and how we were all screwed.

It took a few people doing things, and it built, and it grew, and things in that line are changing. For society, it will take longer and the changes won't be as immediate as voting Bush out of office. You have to do what you can, and encourage others to do the same.

And at the base of it, you have to do something completely irrational and stupid - but something that you, someone closer to your birth date than I am, may remember. You have to hope and keep hoping and put your hopes into action. That's all that ever changed anything.