Tangential to your question, but I think it's important not to assign too much mental or emotional or philosophical weight to a globe-spanning narrative, whether that involve climate change or capitalism or whatever. We interact with the world as individuals first, or more accurately we interact with our individual/local world before we interact with the world at large. The "world" that we've grown to understand through corporate-mediated technology is often removed from the local world we actually interact with. It's part of why being terminally online is so harmful/useless.
It's not to say we shouldn't learn about the larger world, that we shouldn't try to participate in movements larger than ourselves, that we can't use a global perspective to influence our local actions. But it's easy to lose sight of the here and now when we allow (particularly online or social media influenced) narratives to take too much weight compared to actual real-life experience.
I guess the problem is if you're limiting your potential or reinforcing inaction. If you feel yourself sitting back because communism is inevitable, you've limited yourself with a narrative. If you fall back into hedonism or nihilism because climate change is unavoidable, you've limited yourself with a narrative. If you don't interact with working people in your area because they fail various Twitter purity tests, you're limiting yourself with a narrative (although some people obviously aren't worth the effort or risk to self).
idk if communism is inevitable or climate change is survivable or what exactly will happen in geopolitical currents, but I do know my life and the lives of people I know have been improved through activism and organization.
Tangential to your question, but I think it's important not to assign too much mental or emotional or philosophical weight to a globe-spanning narrative, whether that involve climate change or capitalism or whatever. We interact with the world as individuals first, or more accurately we interact with our individual/local world before we interact with the world at large. The "world" that we've grown to understand through corporate-mediated technology is often removed from the local world we actually interact with. It's part of why being terminally online is so harmful/useless.
It's not to say we shouldn't learn about the larger world, that we shouldn't try to participate in movements larger than ourselves, that we can't use a global perspective to influence our local actions. But it's easy to lose sight of the here and now when we allow (particularly online or social media influenced) narratives to take too much weight compared to actual real-life experience.
I guess the problem is if you're limiting your potential or reinforcing inaction. If you feel yourself sitting back because communism is inevitable, you've limited yourself with a narrative. If you fall back into hedonism or nihilism because climate change is unavoidable, you've limited yourself with a narrative. If you don't interact with working people in your area because they fail various Twitter purity tests, you're limiting yourself with a narrative (although some people obviously aren't worth the effort or risk to self).
idk if communism is inevitable or climate change is survivable or what exactly will happen in geopolitical currents, but I do know my life and the lives of people I know have been improved through activism and organization.