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Posted Tuesday, December 26, 2023
4mo
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saw this on tumblr and it blew my mind
creds to: surelytomorrow I once attended a lecture by the explorerer-conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau's daughter and son and they had a lot of opinions about what we could do to help the environment and the ocean and I talked about how in my country, we have to drink bottled water, because it's a desert and there's only salt water all around, but we're contributing to pollution and all of these things... And she looked at me and told me not to fall into the trap of "activist guilt." I couldn't remember the exact words, but, it was the first time I'd heard the term and it took a weight off my shoulders. We do what we can. It's so much better than giving up entirely or not doing anything at all because we can't do it perfectly. It doesn't benefit anyone in the end if we just sit around feeling guilty about every little thing in life. I'd just joined tumblr back then haha, so like, eight or nine years ago at this point?), I was being exposed to way more than I'd ever been before (| was previously just into feminism and animal rights/wildlife conservation/ environmentalism since I was a kid), and it was weighing on me. As long as humans are humans and living flawed lives, many consumed by greed, there will not be anything in this world untouched by evil. usually avoid stuff that says it was made in China or other cheap looking knockoffs, out of fear of them being made in sweatshops (now, I know even a lot of big brands use those...), it's exhausting. Then, I read something about how people who actually lived and worked in those would still buy this cheap stuff and how this shocked the foreigner reporting on it, but they just looked confused like, it's what they can afford and them avoiding consuming it isn't going to change the whole system from the ground-up. .. it went on about how "money talks" and choosing where to put your money still feeds the whole capitalist system and is nearly a way of comforting yourself, but you not buying doesn't mean everyone else isn't. What needs to be tackled is at a much higher level than any of us can reach. Of course, I'd still, given the choice, give my money to companies I agree with and I'll boycott what I know to support awful stuff, but I also feel no superiority over this and know now it's not as black and white or easy as I thought it was. This is the same reason that moral purity "you can't enjoy x] because it's Problematic ** is such nonsense, because nothing is pure. There's something bad about everything if you dig deep enough. As long as we lived in flawed human societies we've got to make the best of what they offer us. If you have the choice and means, please, do support those who do good, but also, don't beat yourself up over not living up to an unattainable ideal. No one can. You'll just make yourself so mis-erable, you either burn up and stop fighting entirely or you'll make yourself a non-productive, depressed heap just out of a bleeding heart left unchecked. You can't make a change 1 this world if you refuse to engage in it.
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