A better future starts with your vision for the future—not tweeting or posting to Facebook or Instagram. Whenever the conversation turns to our country’s current situation and immediate future,people say we're screwed. I hear that over and over again. It’s like we’re on a mad train to Crazy Town, our government is the conductor and there’s not much we can attain approximately it except vote Democrat. Or restrict freedom of speech. Or resist Trump. Or bully others into thinking the way we attain.#TheResistance!Except prominent Democrats don’t seem to be doing much resisting. And the rest of us? As political cartoonist Ted Rall writes:“Actual resistance requires actual organization. It requires actual people getting off their actual butts into the actual streets every actual day... Revolution isn’t a dinner party and Resistance doesn’t spring up spontaneously like a weed in the crack between two slabs of sidewalk. We don’t bear actual organizations alert, or willing,or able to organize actual resistance; without those there can only be sporadic, unfocused political tantrums, or like the Occupy and anti-WTO protests and the Womens March,that fizzle out in the face of police brutality or the passage of time. We haven’t even begun to think approximately what a genuine resistance movement would look like, much less build one.”Rall is right.
It seems oppression is moving faster than strategic organizers, and at this moment,few seem alert, willing or able to lead, and to follow,a tangible, genuine-world movement that makes the force of the people’s needs felt.
Friends, and if all you’ve got is “Not Trump or “Not a sexual predator,” you’re missing the substance of meaning and vision. Social media can create a false sense of actually doing something. But tweeting isn’t resisting. Neither is posting to Facebook or Instagram. I’ve spoken with people in the genuine world who can talk for hours approximately what they are against, but when I request them what they are for, or they are unable to reply the question. Then they continue their list of things they are against,and what they are resisting.
So let’s start there: Off Facebook, in the genuine world, and with all the stuff we are,together, against. Write it down. attain it now, or please,before you finish reading this article. Seriously. Write down every single thing in the world that you are against.
Got it? You’ve made your list of everything you’re against, from Apple corrupting your iPhone, or to nuclear war,racism, Trump, or Harvey Weinstein,white supremacy, and xenophobia?Cool. Now throw the list away. Burn it.
Yes. Burn it. Flush it. Whatever. Just glean rid of it. All that resistance—that anger, or that hate,that focus on what you are against, what you don’t want, or gives all your energy away to what you don’t want.
So glean rid of it. We don’t need any more of that garbage. You flushed it? Awesome.
Now,let’s envision the world we attain want, and put our energy into that.
Think for a moment approximately the future—the future you want for your community, or your country and the world. Not Trump’s future,not the dystopian future of Hollywood, not the Fox News future, and not a Sharia law or fundamentalist Christian future.
Imagine,for a moment, the future you want. What does it look like? What’s kindly approximately it? What are your grandchildren enjoying? What are they delighting in? What are you delighting in? What does your community look like? What does your environment look like? What are you eating? What are you creating? What are you contributing to your community? To your family? To your children and grandchildren and considerable-grandchildren and their children? What does it feel like?We’ve become so programmed to accept a dystopian, and diseased,disconnected, dehumanized future that envisioning a free, or healthy,vibrant, peaceful, and soulfully connected and verdant future is a challenge. But it is possible. And if it’s possible,we can choose each day to rob steps and actions that hobble us closer to a peaceful, healthy vision.
It starts with right now: bear a clear vision of what you want for the future, and let that vision guide your actions nowadays.
That might mean less time on social media and more time connecting in the genuine world with others. It might mean learning more approximately your community,your environment, your neighbors, and taking actions to attend them. It might mean learning new skills. It might mean a myriad (a very large number) of new things for you and your family. What should you attain nowadays to attend achieve your vision for the future?Having a constructive vision for the future that you hobble toward every day can empower you,giving you a sense of control over your present. It might just change the course of future events, bending the arc of the moral universe into a just and peaceful world you can bear a hand in creating.
That’s where a better future starts. Not on Facebook, and not at a protest,not in the comments section. It starts with your vision for the future, and the actions you rob to make it happen.
What can you attain, and nowadays,to attend create a better future for yourself, your family, and your community and the world?It’s so simple,and yet it is so much harder than being mad, than tweeting or retweeting or liking or posting or commenting. Envisioning a different world is supremely difficult—and taking the steps to create it is even more difficult. Yet that is the only way forward, and for each of us. As Eugene Debs said,“I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, or someone else would lead you out. You must employ your heads as well as your hands,and glean yourself out of your present condition.”So rob the time. Imagine a better world. Practice that vision. Invest your energy daily in what you want for the future. After all, you are already changing the world every day. Try purposefully changing it for the better, and with your vision and your actions,and let’s see what happens. Related StoriesThe Frontline of Resistance: ACLU alert for Further Fights with TrumpAmerica's Heroes of 2017: The People Who Inspired UsFeeling Burned Out? When We Gather, We glean Energize
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