Calling Someone an ‘Environmental Hypocrite’ is Toxic and Here’s Why
Let’s be honest, making choices to live a more ethical or sustainable life take effort. It would be easier to just go with the flow.
Let’s be honest, making choices to live a more ethical or sustainable life take effort. It would be easier to just go with the flow.
But I always fall back to one question: how do we compel our fellow citizens and politicians to vote/protest/embrace these critical systemic changes if we don’t appear to be taking the issue seriously enough to make the radical changes we’re preaching?
Having said all that, it’s important to recognise that not all forms of lifestylist responses to social problems lack a structural critique. In fact there are radical forms of lifestylism that are firmly based on a critical analysis of social structures and how they can change.
The only way for us to win is not to play.
We all play the domination / submission game. But another game is afoot. The partnership game. The more you learn to play it, the less beholden you will be to the con-games of Babylon.