Yeah, virtually all the pushback against it (especially from the "chapo is a fash pipeline" crowd) is based on this fundamental misunderstanding. It's not hard to correct, and I think it's a branding issue more than anything
as for how common sense it is... well I think it all comes from Matt just kinda working stuff out for himself on the stream. It might not be a revolutionary idea, but his articulation of why twitter arguments are fruitless struck me as true, and I think that's really the core of grillpill
To iterate on others, the reason matt says "go off and do something IRL that you enjoy, preferably something with some human contact" isn't because you're checking out, it's because Capitalism seeps into everything.
Eventually your "hobby" will come up against Capitalism in some way, and then all your left theory you were previously yelling into a twitter echo-chamber will have a material context that will allow praxis.
It's better to something tiny but meaningful. Better to radicalise theatre-nerds via an actors union dispute, or provide materials to minorities and workers in your sewing group, or get equipment so the unhoused can play your favourite sport than to fuck around on reddit for 14 hours a day. And success there will give you skills for larger scale stuff.
Having hobbies is cool and good but totally checking out and going apathetic is bad.
grillpill isn't checking out, it's logging off
it's finding points of contact in your local community and organizing over real things that materially affect people
it's realizing that twitter discourse will never move the needle, and instead organizing where people are
One wonders why this is a "pill". It seems like basic common sense.
Because it's hard to swallow for extremely online folks.
Yeah, virtually all the pushback against it (especially from the "chapo is a fash pipeline" crowd) is based on this fundamental misunderstanding. It's not hard to correct, and I think it's a branding issue more than anything
as for how common sense it is... well I think it all comes from Matt just kinda working stuff out for himself on the stream. It might not be a revolutionary idea, but his articulation of why twitter arguments are fruitless struck me as true, and I think that's really the core of grillpill
i will never log off
Ah that sounds much better then, I had the totally wrong idea about it.
To iterate on others, the reason matt says "go off and do something IRL that you enjoy, preferably something with some human contact" isn't because you're checking out, it's because Capitalism seeps into everything.
Eventually your "hobby" will come up against Capitalism in some way, and then all your left theory you were previously yelling into a twitter echo-chamber will have a material context that will allow praxis.
It's better to something tiny but meaningful. Better to radicalise theatre-nerds via an actors union dispute, or provide materials to minorities and workers in your sewing group, or get equipment so the unhoused can play your favourite sport than to fuck around on reddit for 14 hours a day. And success there will give you skills for larger scale stuff.