How much would you risk to help another person? If your only claim to standing for something is wearing a costume, then congratulations: you’re a person in a costume! In our hyper-individualist society, we’re told that if it’s not about us personally, we should not have to care. If we potentially endanger ourselves helping another person, we’ve already given too much. If we try to help and wind up hurting people by accident, then society tells us it’s more prudent that we never act at all. But what is activism without risk of breaking something, of looking foolish, of getting something a lot worse before making it a lot better? Since when is changing your clothes or creative phraseology the equivalent of confronting jail, confronting death, confronting social isolation in the spirit of something you believe in?
The question is not if you had five minutes/red clothes/a new energy or space saver/more places to put your plastic/100% recycled paper goods, would you use it to save the world?
The question is if you had to act without the accoutrements, would you act or turn away? Would you make the workings of the world your business to mind constantly and actively?
And while it’s easy to say “yes” to that question, the difficulty lies in the doing.
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