How Do We Create Real, Lasting Social Change?
Things aren’t going to get better on their own. What we need is a clear, concrete, accessible, realistic, practical, collective, unifying, commonsense plan.
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Step 1: We Need to Get in the Right Frame of Mind
We need to deal with the apathy, cynicism, scapegoating, and despair that results from living in this kind of environment for so long.
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Step 2: We Need to Take Stock
We need to understand why our old institutions aren’t coping with this new, modern world.
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Step 3: We Need to Set the Right Goals
If we really want to achieve our goals, we have to work within the boundaries of how things actually work.
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Step 4: We Need to Take Care of Ourselves
It’s hard to juggle taking care of yourself and making the world a better place at the same time. We need to make sure we get the balance right.
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Step 5: We Need to Be More Strategic About Working for Change
We don’t have a problem with the will or the desire to change. We have a problem with turning that desire into effective action.
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Step 6: We Need to Build Strong Communities
We’re one, global people, folks. And it’s time we started acting like it.
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Step 7: We Need to Deal With Our Ideological Differences
We’ve shattered what should be one common project of figuring stuff out into a million specialized pieces, and pitted them all against each other.
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Step 8: We Need to Act Collectively
We need to be working together in large numbers, as part of a coordinated effort. That’s the only way we’re really going to get rapid, peaceful progress.
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Step 9: We Need to Reform Our Institutions
We’re going to have to figure out how to get our institutions to work for us, instead of the political and economic elites they currently work for.
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Step 10: We Need to Avoid Common Pitfalls
When people get together and try to make change happen, there’s a pretty consistent set of obstacles they have to overcome.
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A Plea for the Next Four Years
As long as our efforts are channeled against each other, 99 percent of it is going to be cancelled out by the other side.
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