Be hopeless for 5 minutes. Then, get mad. And join political activist organizations where high numbers of young people are involved. Just baking cookies for the next meeting is 45 minutes of doing something to advance what really matters to you. Start a reading group on political meat and potatoes books - Naomi Klein, Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, Finkelstein, especially, Chomsky. Fret and fret.
Read the Artists Way and The Path of Least Resistance, and Rick Rubin's The Creative Act....and channel your creativity into whatever expression makes the biggest difference for you. The set-up today depends on pliancy, going along to get along, and not boat rocking. Not aiming to create the "good". Defy the prevailing status quo. Get clear on exactly what it is you want to have happen. (Path of Least Resistance is good on this). Do it!
It seems hopeless.
Stop kidding yourself that voting Team D will fix anything.
It would prevent some extreme actions on the right.
If that is all it takes to buy you off.
Be hopeless for 5 minutes. Then, get mad. And join political activist organizations where high numbers of young people are involved. Just baking cookies for the next meeting is 45 minutes of doing something to advance what really matters to you. Start a reading group on political meat and potatoes books - Naomi Klein, Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, Finkelstein, especially, Chomsky. Fret and fret.
Read the Artists Way and The Path of Least Resistance, and Rick Rubin's The Creative Act....and channel your creativity into whatever expression makes the biggest difference for you. The set-up today depends on pliancy, going along to get along, and not boat rocking. Not aiming to create the "good". Defy the prevailing status quo. Get clear on exactly what it is you want to have happen. (Path of Least Resistance is good on this). Do it!