"Though the silenced opinion be an error, it may contain a portion of truth; and since the prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied." --JS Mill
"I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking." --Woodrow Wilson
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible.
The majority of society is static—they resist change, or they change so little, a single person can barely experience any progress. But our society is something different: it is a dynamic society. A dynamic society allows great progress, yet remain stable. @ToKTeacher
Don't manage your personal life based on macro FOMO or macro doom and gloom.
On any given day, month or year, there are tens, possibly hundreds, of millions of people making their lives better.
Be one of them.
Either the playing field is leveled or the Tower of Babel is shattered.
We get a centralized public square, where they can’t censor us. Or we all decentralize to our own communities, where they can’t censor us.
It’s very difficult to know how long sentiment will last in the modern era.
The chaos of 2020 felt like a big deal at the time. Barely discussed today. Same with countless other Current Things.
So, set your long-term goals and just keep steadily working towards them.