A quotation from Watterson, Bill

CALVIN: When I grow up, I’m not going to read the newspaper and I’m not going to follow complex issues and I’m not going to vote. That way I can complain when the government doesn’t represent me. Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn’t work and justify my further lack of participation.

HOBBES: An ingeniously self-fulfilling plan.

CALVIN: It’s a lot more fun to blame things than to fix them.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-05-18)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlfSWZSwAQY https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

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what else would you tag this with?

ps, [Dane closes that episode with "time is not on our side", but methinks less panicked approaches my be more efficacious, so yes, dire situation, tightening, but, keep your head about you, and know we have #SOMUCHHEADROOM once we clear out the vast, vast, vast scams of depriving us of the thousands of innovations of clean emancipatory technologies...] we never needed the polluting technologies that enslave us. we could always have had comforts of innovation without the toxicities nor the expense of rents that economically enslave us. never needed. was always a slaver's scam. now see the extent of the scam, so vast...

pps, and we do not need to stay on #easterisland, nor keep trying to expend/destroy all our resources on totems to pray to or to compete with each other.

=== and we do not need to stay on #earth, nor keep trying to expend/destroy all our resources on totems to pray to or to compete with each other.

plenty #space out there in the expanding ocean of space... c'mon humanity, shake off the shackles of this tragic madness. lift each other towards #spaceshipsforeverybody

A quotation by Obama, Barack

It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we’ve been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we, in fact, all share the same proud title, the most important office in a democracy: Citizen. Citizen. So, you see, that’s what our democracy demands. It needs you. Not just when there’s an election, not just when your own narrow interest is at stake, but over the full span of a lifetime.

Barack Obama (b. 1961) American politician, US President (2009-2017)

“Farewell Address,” Chicago (10 Jan 2017)

#quote #quotation #citizenship #democracy #engagement #participation

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/obama-barack/53549/

WIST - Obama, Barack | "Farewell Address," Chicago (10 Jan 2017)

It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we've been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we, in fact, all share...

A quotation by Obama, Barack

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted. All of us, regardless of party, should be throwing ourselves into the task of rebuilding our democratic institutions. When voting rates in America are some of the lowest among advanced democracies, we should be making it easier, not harder, to vote. When trust in our institutions is low, we should reduce the corrosive influence of money in our politics, and insist on the principles of transparency and ethics in public service. When Congress is dysfunctional, we should draw our congressional districts to encourage politicians to cater to common sense and not rigid extremes. But remember, none of this happens on its own. All of this depends on our participation; on each of us accepting the responsibility of citizenship, regardless of which way the pendulum of power happens to be swinging.

Barack Obama (b. 1961) American politician, US President (2009-2017)

“Farewell Address,” Chicago (10 Jan 2017)

#quote #quotation #democracy #engagement #government #institutions #participation

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/obama-barack/53293/

WIST - Obama, Barack | "Farewell Address," Chicago (10 Jan 2017)

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted. All of us, regardless of party, should be throwing ourselves into the task of rebuilding our democratic institutions. When voting rates in America are some of the lowest among advanced...

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A quotation by Snyder, Timothy

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.

Timothy Snyder (b. 1969) American historian, author

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017)

#quotation #quote #impact #life #participation #politics #reaction

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/snyder-timothy/48169/

WIST - Snyder, Timothy | On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017)

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.