+41 The saying "You can't change the world, only yourself" is just a way to disuade people from targeting the actual problem, amirite?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I 100% agree with you. As much as peaceful protests help the world, it's simply not enough. Humans react to the extreme. Half measures won't solve much, if you want to make real change you have to go all in.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's not useful to the person to stress about problems they can't control and instead change the way they react to them

by Hour-Conversation828 1 week ago

I think it's useful in the sense of grounding someone who is having a lot of anxiety over things they're not going to be able to easily change. No, I can't fix homelessness myself. But, I can change myself and my practices. I can advocate for more humane homeless policies, I can educate people who are ignorant and hateful. But I can't fix it alone.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't think anyone would say this to someone they believed had the capacity to organize people for change. This is the type of thing someone says to an unemployed adult living in their parents' basement who thinks they can solve a problem like world hunger.

by CommunityExpensive 1 week ago

Well it seems like people are telling this politicians, billionaires and other people in positions of power cause they don't seem to be doing much.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's an impossibly big "IF" you're asking for.

by Ecasper 1 week ago

It's happened throughout history before, look at the Christmas armistice or any civil war.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's not changing the world-- it's putting out fires. If you created an actual horn of plenty that would end hunger around the world-- half the planet would seek to destroy it immediately, and another fourth of us would defend to the death their right to do so. The real problems never change, so we tackle the issues we can, in ourselves.

by Ecasper 1 week ago