Activism, the internet, and trying to be less useless
We bloggers have gotten awfully good at identifying problems. We’ve made a hobby of spotting the deficiencies in other people’s actions, words, and thoughts. We’re less good at solving those problems. This sometimes makes the internet an unpleasant place. (I’m certainly guilty of this unpleasantness at times.)
To some extent, we’re limited by the medium. You can write things on the internet, but direct action is impossible. In light of this limitation, I would offer two things we all (myself included) could attempt to do to make the intenet is a more useful thing. First, we can couple criticism and problem identification with tangible actions that might be taken to constructively address a problem. Second, we ought to live out our own suggestions.
I sometimes feel that the internet is a perpetually boiling tea kettle. Perhaps all that energy could be harnessed to do something powerful.
