People feel powerless. Letting them know how fucked up our capitalist hell world is just makes them depressed and mad with you. “there’s no point caring about things you can’t change. All you’re doing is reminding me that everything is shit.”
So what do we do? How do talk about these things with people without destroying their hope? Do you just not talk about it? I don’t feel I’m ever helping anyone by dispelling imperial propaganda, it just makes them sad.
Don’t tell people. Ask people. Be Socratic about it.
Questions are much better than statements. Questions create more questions.
“Why is it that when we do it it’s good but when they do it it’s evil regime?”
If you don’t get the answer you want, just ask more follow up questions. “Yeah then why is blah blah blah”.
Instead of telling people, say the same shit but with a question. It gets you a lot further through barriers and resistance.
