Do you really have a world view or are you just lazy?

Are you a techno-phile, techno-optimist, techno-solutionist, techno-fantasist, techno-utopiast? Do you think technology and artificial intelligence (AI) will solve all our problems?

"Socialism didn't work did it, we tried that didn't we? The extreme right and left are as bad as each other, and the political parties are all the same."

"Protests don't work, letter writing doesn't work, and petitions don't work."

"It's in God's hands."

"But are they really Nazis?"

"Individual action achieves nothing, its the fossil fuel companies."

"I don't follow politics, I don't watch / listen to the news."

"Why weren't you doing this for Sudan, Congo, West Papua, [insert any whataboutism country]."

"There's no silver bullet, there's no magic wand."

"Activism is easy until you have to get something done."

"You have to understand the real world."

"We can't do this too quickly."

"But the economy!"

"The NIMBYs are the problem."

"Trump is just shaking things up."

"The market will fix it."

"It's nuanced."

"Two things can be true."

"There's nothing we can do about Palestine, and is it really genocide?"

"If only China did something about it."

"One person can't change things."

Do you look for and cherry pick that one news article that suggests you don't have to do anything? Do you say that an individual doing something achieves nothing? Do you argue to maintain the status quo?

Doing something doesn't make you an 'activist', it makes you a human being.

'Activists' aren't extremists or radicals, they are normal people with empathy responding morally to an issue.

So does your apathy and desire to do nothing about anything shape your world view, or does your world view urge you into action?

If your world view involves you doing nothing, is it coincidence or convenience?

Do you really have a world view, or are you just lazy?

"...I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the... ...great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is... ...the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action". - Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail