You might want to click through a few times on this. Basically this is WEF propaganda saying how billionaires are good for the world, and urge you not to get in their way with criticism or be labeled a doomsayer, negative Andy or 'pessimist'.
I'm definitely on the left side of the political spectrum. But I am very frustrated by how leftism seems so often be so centred on critique (a negative trait) rather than building ideas/stuff.
"Speaking truth to power" is not really working because power doesn't care. Organizing seldom leads anywhere because it's just interpreted as more of "speaking truth to power" through protest. More critique. If a power structure is bad and it doesn't listen to you yelling louder doesn't really work. Complaining doesn't work. There needs to be something positive. Something that creates an alternative. But somehow the right owns the idea of entrepreneurship and unions are out of fashion and have maybe stagnated as a concept so the left is stuck protesting.
I want to make something that tries to solve the problem. I want to be part of a movement of creators that create the solution. I don't want to discourage protest but I don't really believe in it as a method for solving the big problems we are having. There are times for protest but protests aren't providing a solution that people believe or care about. That solution needs to be created first. (To be clear: I'm not talking about "Protest against autocrats" I'm specifically talking about "Protest against our unsustainable society".)
Revolutions of the past (or against autocrats) succeed because they presented a solution that people genuinely believed in and want. If degrowth is to convince anyone outside a small niche it needs to be reframed/restructured/remade into a vision that people want. Not a solution that people are guilt-tripped into while believing they have to give up every comfort while others can still keep doing what they do.
I think there are seeds of this vision scattered about here and there. But it needs to be turned into a robust ideology that can stand the scrutiny of social media 2022+.
And in this lies the problem that ideology is kind of dead. Or it needs to get some kind of rebirth. Social media eat modernist ideologies for breakfast and poops out a mess that people so far has only been able to build messy populism or very niche movements from.
So we might need a way to go past modernist ideology. Maybe we need to reinvent democracy. The closest idea I have found so far is the idea of the "Third Attractor" - Creating collectivist truth through some kind of well thought out method for structured discourse, negotiation and decision making. Making something that scales here seems to me like one of the defining issues of our time.
I'm probably still naive about what seeds are out there though because there is just sooo much. And I'm just a software engineer so what the hell do I know. But I don't see anyone else connecting the dots enough to create something that people in general can agree on so I suppose I can allow myself to speculate.
Protest needs to be the very beginning, not the end. Someone being grumpy or complaining on sosh meeds is not protesting, they are fueling the machine.
> Social media eat modernist ideologies
I agree, but I believe that is the intended effect.
Social media is a void that people scream into. Unless your organizing on social media has any direct action in the physical world, it is functioning as intended.
