If you want normal people to listen to an idea, you've got to make it easy to understand and you've got to make it interesting. No normal human being going about their life has any incentive to listen to you unless you do both of these things. The onus isn't on them, it's on you.
Thank you. How narcissistic would you have to be to think you can just tell some stranger to read Lenin or whatever and they'll go "Well that complete rando ordered me to invest my scarce time and energy in this so I'd better do it"? No. This is OUR job.
https://twitter.com/Anarch_King/status/1355753364185894914?s=20
Whenever I bring this up people say stuff like "It's not a popularity contest Caitlin". Yes it fucking is! You want your ideas to be more popular than the shitty, self-destructive, soul-crushing, world-destroying ideas which support the status quo. This won't happen by itself.
It's not enough to be right. You can't save the world just by holding the right beliefs in your obscure corner of the information ecosystem. That's like believing life will reward you if you're a nice person on the inside. Share the ideas. Make them simple, make them interesting.
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