- cross-posted to:
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/45502817
[purple, speaking]
We could fix everything
[purple, proudly]
It’d be easy actually, we have most of the political power
[purple, smug]
But we won’t
[zoom on purple’s face, smiling creepily at us]
https://thebad.website/comic/could
People don’t wield power. Power wields people.
If your model of change is focused on the behavior of individuals instead of systems, you’ll never get anywhere.
Yeah, focusing on the system is important. But there are very clear an obvious examples of individual people who could have worked on making things better, and chose not to.
It’s important to point out their unwillingness. Some might even say that to focus on why they keep doing that, is to focus on the system…