Greta Markurt
@greti
Greta Markurt
Durable restoration isn’t won with a gun — it’s won with journalism, lawsuits, strikes, organizing, divestment, and the kind of civic mass that makes authoritarians crumble in daylight.
Democracy Bleeds Out When Violence Wins
If you find yourself acting to impress others, or avoiding action out of fear of what they might think, you have left the path. Find satisfaction in following your philosophy. If you want to be respected, start by respecting yourself.
Epictetus • The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life
Violence is also what happens when systems quietly grind people down
The Violence Before the Violence
Putting different hands on the faucets may change the rate at which the faucets turn, but if they’re the same old faucets, plumbed into the same old system, turned according to the same old information and goals and rules, the system behavior isn’t going to change much.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
systemtheorie checken!
Nietzche believed that the highest form of life wasn’t about knowing, but about becoming.
You begin to understand that the fear of being misunderstood is the real prison —not the misunderstanding itself. The misunderstanding is just weather. But the fear is the cage you've been building around yourself, bar by bar, explanation by explanation
The quiet thrill of not being for everyone
eople in left-leaning movements know full well that some of their own supporters are undermining message discipline and strategic imperatives.
The Problem With America’s Protest Feedback Loop
Mass struggles have come to rely too much on street protests, Chenoweth observes, and to neglect the “quiet, behind-the-scenes planning and organizing that enable movements to mobilize in force over the long term, and to coordinate and sequence tactics in a way that builds participation, leverage, and power.”
The Problem With America’s Protest Feedback Loop
what you owe is to yourself: a steady nervous system, a baseline of peace, the ability to trust that if something feels off, you don’t have to stick around long enough to find out just how off it really is