I think that this idea of why bother to act because it
will not “change” anything is really irrelevant…
It doesn’t matter if carrying banners on the street changes anything or not…
the point is to carry the banners regardless if anyone notices or not…
The point is to become aware and that is the real value of carrying the
banner in the streets. By carrying the banner, you create awareness
in people and the change if any, occurs there… in the changing
of our perceptions…the value of the banner in the street is not
to convince people, but to create awareness, to create an perception…
The change we create is not a physical one, but a mental one…
we become aware of injustice as a mental act, not a physical one…
It is in the changing of the perceptions that create change, not
necessarily in the carrying around the banner…
Does this mean that the world is a mental world?
an “idealist world”?
Not at all, physical matter exists, tree’s, stoves,
cars, plants, dogs and stars all exists…
but what the “meaning” of each of these is the question…
You can view, perceive a dog as an animal or a pet or food
or a working animal or………You can create your own meaning
as to what a dog means…… Most people view dogs as animals,
but that doesn’t mean dogs must be view, seen as animals…
we can view a dog in a wide variety of ways and all of them will be right.
How do you view human beings? Are they evil or good or food or
thought or possibilities or sons or daughters or victims or
godlike? does it matter? You tell me…….
I see human beings as beings that have possibilities…
I see the past, present and future in every human being……
Now you may see human beings differently and that is fine…
does that mean human beings don’t exists because we see them
differently? no, not at all…we perceive human beings differently
due to our childhood indoctrinations and then we view them
differently after we our overcome of those childhood indoctrinations
and we overcome and become who we are…….
think of Dickens “Christmas Carol” Scrooge changed
because his perceptions of the world change, the world
itself didn’t change in any way, shape or form……
How he viewed the world changed and it made all the difference
in the world…… So please feel free to carry those banners
on the street because all you are doing is getting people to
become aware, aware of what injustice is or what hate is or
what is the nature of god is…………
The point is not to change the world but to make it aware…
change will come after awareness happens…
Kropotkin