Comment by watwut
2 days ago
What kind of sacrifice are you imagine the students to do here?
And also, that generation got quite a few students who did sacrificed their future in protests just a few years ago. The crackdown was very real and is still ongoing.
I have zero opinion about the state of the world. I'm just making an observation.
Awareness of issues only gets you so far. But it factors into daily decisions. And when it's all too much to bear, we just push it out of mind and continue with our little sphere of influence.
Society is built up this way: everyone has their own little sphere of influence.
Money and power have much larger spheres.
So you either protest enough to cope and move on, or you get angry enough to change.
Again, I have no answers, just observation. I'm fine with AI, despite realizing our economy is eating itself. You slowly begin to realize all we ever do is eat each other, or other things.
Is that an actual observation or theory about how world should work? Because what I wrote was actual observation - students actually being willing to put on work, organize and sacrifice. And another observation that there is no real action they could possibly take and are lazily not taking.
From that point of view, your stance seems more like a theory/ideology you project on the world rather then an observation.