I've heard this rebuttal countless times on these forums.
You don't know what I meant.
You're reading into it.
You don't know me.
I choose NOT to be mysterious and abstract and beat around the bush, but rather post and question and debate towards actionable decisions and plans. That is the vector along which I post ESPECIALLY in grassroots central.
So if you're ...feh... or ...meh... with regards to helping, or having faith in others, or hopeless in general, why post at all in this forum? Why not the vent or politics and philosophy?
This is an all too common pattern:
Disaffected Activist: Movement is dead.
Motivated Activist: We can do this or even try this!
Disaffected Activist: Won't work.
Motivated Activist: You aren't trying, though, why not just commit to trying? Lead, follow or get out of the way.
Disaffected Activist: You don't know me. You misunderstand me. I see what you're saying but we disagree.
So what happens? Nothing. Because this medium requires no commitment. You aren't even a real person in any "accountable" sense. The same as 90% of this board. What will happen in ten years? IT'S BEEN TEN YEARS! My profile is 11 years old this May.
Anyway, you're right I don't know you. And maybe I "read into" what people write. It's because I'm looking for substance. I don't care about people's life stories because I'm interested in the mission, not making friends and entertaining myself and others. Sure it's fun sometimes, and it's great if we make friends, but if that takes precedence over the mission, than we are a liability to the movement, not an asset.
Nothing much is happening, that's true. But even this community existing, and still discussing liberty is more "happening" then whatever the left is up to.
Ron had ideas, great ideas, but when we lost Ron, it seems the hope he inspired went with him. How to get people to have hope and enthusiasm while looking in the mirror instead of someone else to lead the way, that's the real challenge.
The problem is our own apathy, once cured, now back with a vengeance.
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