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I'm used to putting up stuff on social media, and generally being ignored. Yesterday, I posted something that actually got feedback and traction.


 

 

Lots of comments, many of them positive, many of them missing the point altogether. Heaps of folks assuming that I'm in the US...which kind of makes me wonder about how tricky it would be to boycott buying American products. There were also a lot of reactionary responses... some saying that everyone in the USA is to blame, and therefore we should abandon them all. Some engaging further and accepting the notion that Americans might be pawns in a larger game, run by greedy companies and oligarchs.

It all links into the notions I've been developing for the Familiar game, so that's interesting (and I guess that links into my last post). 

It's a rough one. It's the kind of situation where you can make a sound-bite comment to stir a bit of controversy and bait the hook. But you could also use the whole Star Wars quote that "only Sith deal in absolutes" to reduce anyone with a black and white, all or nothing, approach is taking the darker path. 

Ideas such as not spending any money on February 28th to send a message to the plutocrats are easy for me... there are plenty of days when I don't spend anything anyway. But seizing up an economy isn't necessarily a good thing for those who are struggling anyway. My aim is to inject my money, and my support, to those who need and deserve it most. It may not seem a lot, but trying to help everyone is a massive undertaking, and as someone who has struggled to get a modicum of stability, I'm just trying to share that a bit without destabilising my own life again. If I go down, I can't help others.. so I do what I can with what I've got.

I've also noticed folks being pedantic and nit-picking over nuance, bit that's pretty common in my experience and could be an entire pist on its own. 

Anyway...that's where my current headspace is at.

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