factivism
so much of activism relies on speaking truth to power, or at the very least, raising awareness of a disparity between what is and what is being presented as true. we live ever-submerged in truths of an untrue world and depending on which of the false truths one has been effected by, campaigns arise to bring awareness of what is. every day someone else experiences old injustices. the faces change, but the rules on which they operate remain the same. and in the face of all this misery, some take to detailing these injustices. they declare an injustice not simply as fact, but as a moral issue to be addressed. in the context of the present social machine of which all of us and none of us are simultaneously parts, it would seem that many are aware that there are injustices and, depending on our local subjective context, we may pick and choose which injustices are more or less urgent than another because certain things effect us more directly or indirectly (this choice, although illusory and presupposed to correlate to certain socioeconomic groups, is indeed a privilege in the face of the fact that many, by sheet force of circumstance, have no choice). yet these avenues of activism or awareness have already been presupposed by the minds of the elite. being in a position with all the cards, those without can point out this fact all day, but every means inevitably leads to an end. the world we inhabit psychologically is not simply this way. it, more or less, was premeditated and calculated to keep us focused on individual injustices and the means to end them so the powers that be continue to moving the strings and garner all the actual means. they are aware there is no end, so they must continually perpetuate this system of social control that forces concepts like liberation and freedom to be ends one is to achieve instead of a means to something greater, something beyond the point it leads to. and in reality, there is no they. they are us. “they” exist within context and we know that context is at the very least illusory if not entirely false. so how to do we reconcile the need for solidarity between causes and also focus our efforts on changing the whole context of our coexistence? we can sow new seeds in rot of the old world, but we must till the land, even the parts we like. our shortsightedness is part of the conditioning necessary to maintain the status quo. the separation that we experience as part of our self-awareness is conditioning necessary to driving this system with everyone in it off a cliff while we all look around for someone to blame. activism is the most humble way to inflate ones ego because it is inherently selfless seeming. but we’re all trapped and trying to doll up the joint instead of breaking free and moving on. there is no end; every end is a means.
