hex@Hex@kolektiva.social
When I say things like "it's up to us" and "no one will save us," I don't mean it in any kind of abstract way. We have to disrupt hundreds of years of entrenched power in order to keep billions of people from dying. That means all of us. That means you.
You are important. The things you do are important. We have all been sold a version of history where one great person (usually a man) does something, and it changes the world for everyone. That story is a lie. It may even be the opposite of the truth.
Change comes from social networks, by lots of people working together (often without knowing it), whose ideas are often captured and voiced by a few individuals. History recognizes those individuals as the cause of social change, rather than a late stage effect.
What you say and do today will shape the world we live in tomorrow. What do you want that to look like?
One thing you can do to achieve that is just to ask this question with a couple of your friends and talk it out. Every conversation you have about what could be brings it closer to actually being.