The cushion of Joe Rogan fans feel powerful by association, because they have no idea what actual power actually feels like. This is what happens when people’s power to affect their own destinies is gone; they’ll seek out the feeling of power in the easiest place it can be found.
And that’s why building mutual aid networks is so important. When people don’t have to sell themselves to acquire their basic necessities, they gain back the power over their own destiny, preventing them from turning into sycophants out of desperation.
Those networks are far more effective as genuonely mutual aid though, when it’s not just a second power structure that while not useless is only alternates for the last couple links in a long supply chain.
Creating new sources, replacing links farther up, and showing people their own agency to reduce alienation is such a big deal in making them capable independent peers, rather than just tools with a handle you can hold.
The cushion of Joe Rogan fans feel powerful by association, because they have no idea what actual power actually feels like. This is what happens when people’s power to affect their own destinies is gone; they’ll seek out the feeling of power in the easiest place it can be found.
Yep. Gotta give them something in their actual lives.
And that’s why building mutual aid networks is so important. When people don’t have to sell themselves to acquire their basic necessities, they gain back the power over their own destiny, preventing them from turning into sycophants out of desperation.
Those networks are far more effective as genuonely mutual aid though, when it’s not just a second power structure that while not useless is only alternates for the last couple links in a long supply chain.
Creating new sources, replacing links farther up, and showing people their own agency to reduce alienation is such a big deal in making them capable independent peers, rather than just tools with a handle you can hold.