I know what you mean, and I think the despair is more widespread than most people realize. (I still hold to my theory that the popularity of zombies mostly has to do with people being unable to envision a viable future...)
Still, there's a positive spin when you consider the difference between now and the 60's. We've got a vastly more egalitarian distribution of the tools of power, from the ability to document events to making sure the entire world is able to see those events unedited and uncensored. We have the theoretical ability to mobilize thousands within minutes.
The problem is, we've mostly done fuck-all with those tools so far. Zombie marches and flashmobs. Facebook pulse-posts and endless Livejournal updates to the same hundred people who feel exactly the same and are writing the exact same thing.
So, what do you do with that? What do you do with those hundred people? Damned if I know. But for all that it always seems like we're smarter than the current evil in power, they seem to use those tools much better than we do.
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Still, there's a positive spin when you consider the difference between now and the 60's. We've got a vastly more egalitarian distribution of the tools of power, from the ability to document events to making sure the entire world is able to see those events unedited and uncensored. We have the theoretical ability to mobilize thousands within minutes.
The problem is, we've mostly done fuck-all with those tools so far. Zombie marches and flashmobs. Facebook pulse-posts and endless Livejournal updates to the same hundred people who feel exactly the same and are writing the exact same thing.
So, what do you do with that? What do you do with those hundred people? Damned if I know. But for all that it always seems like we're smarter than the current evil in power, they seem to use those tools much better than we do.