This is what happens when you kill the hero in your head while trying to do good things. You don't blind yourself to the abilities of comrades around you.
If you've been eating from the buffet of "hero" media (I'm being USA-centric here so I hope everybody else can forgive me), you typically see protagonists who can do everything perfectly, Rambo, John Wick, James Bond, etc. They're all supermen, essentially.
They can scale any wall, open any door, have a gizmo that magically gets them out of the exact jam they find themselves in.
This winds up translating into reality, where a person will think, "Hey, I'm not a politician so how can I change politics?" or "I'm not able to punch cops in the face, so I'm not going to be useful in a protest.", or "I don't think I could shoot somebody so I can't be part of the revolution."
The reality, is that you probably know something that could be absolutely useful in a mutual aid project, or at a protest, or in support of people at a protest, or in a revolutionary setting. A good leader isn't a superman who does everything on their own. A good leader is one who knows the mission, its purpose, can teach or find people who believe/agree with the mission and purpose, and can tease out what those comrades know or can do to succeed in the mission.
This is what happens when you kill the hero in your head while trying to do good things. You don't blind yourself to the abilities of comrades around you.
For the noobs in the back, what does this mean?
You are cog in machine of revolution, you are not whole machine
Thank god, I hate having to do all the work for a whole team
So.
If you've been eating from the buffet of "hero" media (I'm being USA-centric here so I hope everybody else can forgive me), you typically see protagonists who can do everything perfectly, Rambo, John Wick, James Bond, etc. They're all supermen, essentially.
They can scale any wall, open any door, have a gizmo that magically gets them out of the exact jam they find themselves in.
This winds up translating into reality, where a person will think, "Hey, I'm not a politician so how can I change politics?" or "I'm not able to punch cops in the face, so I'm not going to be useful in a protest.", or "I don't think I could shoot somebody so I can't be part of the revolution."
The reality, is that you probably know something that could be absolutely useful in a mutual aid project, or at a protest, or in support of people at a protest, or in a revolutionary setting. A good leader isn't a superman who does everything on their own. A good leader is one who knows the mission, its purpose, can teach or find people who believe/agree with the mission and purpose, and can tease out what those comrades know or can do to succeed in the mission.
Perfect, thank you