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Originally Posted by djchameleon
How do you think the narrative will ever change?
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Well nothing happens in a vacuum. People aren't just going to "wake up" without some new stimuli being introduced. The biggest depression since the Great one hasn't really lit a fire under our collective asses, several pointless wars haven't made anybody do anything besides bitch at a TV screen, people still complain about attack ads while using them to decide who to vote for, congress grandstanding until our credit rating took a hit didn't wake anybody up, etc, etc, etc. If a wake up call is going to have to be even worse than all of those then... ****, can you blame me for a lack of enthusiasm? All the making up flyers, and writing letters to my congressman, and voting for the lesser of two evils in the world aren't going to be able to convince a population that is committed to indifference and I don't have the faith or the drive to be the guy who's willing to bang his head against a wall to change it. You have to have a certain level of deluded optimism to be able to believe in such radical change when all of the facts to the contrary are staring you in the face, and irrational or not, those are the kind of people who accomplish things. I am not one of those people. Never have been, never will be, so I'm just not the man for the job.