I know this sounds like a stupid platitude, but the solution to doomerism is to organize. In real life, with living, breathing humans.
Join whatever organization is active in your community, start attending meetings, find a campaign to plug into, and spend at least a few hours a week doing something positive with other people that also want to do something positive. And, after you campaign with them, socialize with them because organizing can be hard but feeling connected to members of your community feels better.
I helped found a mutual aid working group in my DSA chapter; we spend all month taking in donations, and then host a monthly Food Not Bombs-style food and hygienic supply distribution for the unhoused and food insecure. The feeling you get when you actually help improve people’s material conditions is genuinely just the best.
What about in the comfort of one’s own bedroom? Also, I stopped using Twitter back in September 2023 in protest to Elon Musk running the site. Needless to say, I prefer Bluesky - a whole lot better there.
Seconded. Also, acknowledging the reality that change is slow.
Some people think burning down the system is the way to go, but rarely talk about what comes after. We have a system currently, albeit shitty af, but changing it will take much less work and time than building one from the ground up. Not to mention the amount of suffering that would be caused by the turmoil that would follow a governmental collapse.
Zohran Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists have proved that it is possible to co-op the Democratic party. Now, it is just a matter of like-minded people putting in the work to organize.
Time will tell if our ability to organize changes, but as of right now, we have hope.
I know this sounds like a stupid platitude, but the solution to doomerism is to organize. In real life, with living, breathing humans.
Join whatever organization is active in your community, start attending meetings, find a campaign to plug into, and spend at least a few hours a week doing something positive with other people that also want to do something positive. And, after you campaign with them, socialize with them because organizing can be hard but feeling connected to members of your community feels better.
I helped found a mutual aid working group in my DSA chapter; we spend all month taking in donations, and then host a monthly Food Not Bombs-style food and hygienic supply distribution for the unhoused and food insecure. The feeling you get when you actually help improve people’s material conditions is genuinely just the best.
And, yeah, definitely get off Twitter.
What about in the comfort of one’s own bedroom? Also, I stopped using Twitter back in September 2023 in protest to Elon Musk running the site. Needless to say, I prefer Bluesky - a whole lot better there.
If in your bedroom is all you can do, that’s better than nothing, but the ability to effectively organize online only is limited.
Seconded. Also, acknowledging the reality that change is slow.
Some people think burning down the system is the way to go, but rarely talk about what comes after. We have a system currently, albeit shitty af, but changing it will take much less work and time than building one from the ground up. Not to mention the amount of suffering that would be caused by the turmoil that would follow a governmental collapse.
Zohran Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists have proved that it is possible to co-op the Democratic party. Now, it is just a matter of like-minded people putting in the work to organize.
Time will tell if our ability to organize changes, but as of right now, we have hope.