What does “taking it seriously” look like when Joe Shmoe does it? Am I building a bomb shelter? Am I printing copies of (some less discredited edition of) the Anarchist’s Cookbook and leaving them at food banks?
oh god, NO, it doesn’t make sense to be building a fucking nuclear bomb shelter in fucking Waterloo because I’m afraid of Trump. That is time and energy that is wasted, and if there is genuinely a threat, that means I’ve just made the threat more dangerous.
Even when your heart is in the right place, even when you are motivated by genuine threats, you can still make things worse by being stupid and getting manipulated. And even if the threat is real, it doesn’t mean people aren’t taking advantage of it to manipulate us into doing things that are not in our own self-interest.
What does “taking it seriously” look like when Joe Shmoe does it? Am I building a bomb shelter? Am I printing copies of (some less discredited edition of) the Anarchist’s Cookbook and leaving them at food banks?
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oh god, NO, it doesn’t make sense to be building a fucking nuclear bomb shelter in fucking Waterloo because I’m afraid of Trump. That is time and energy that is wasted, and if there is genuinely a threat, that means I’ve just made the threat more dangerous.
Even when your heart is in the right place, even when you are motivated by genuine threats, you can still make things worse by being stupid and getting manipulated. And even if the threat is real, it doesn’t mean people aren’t taking advantage of it to manipulate us into doing things that are not in our own self-interest.
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