None of that addresses his point.
If you want trivial concessions, America and the UK are great places to get them. In that sense, yes, change happens all the time. The problem is that it’s meaningless change. Our entire social system is still engineered from the bottom up in favor of concentrated private capital above people.
You’re also grossly misrepresenting Russell when you suggest that not voting is his idea of effecting change. Nowhere has he said anything like that. He only suggests that voting accomplishes nothing worthwhile, and perpetuates the illusion of popular consent.
This is a regurgitation of Paxton’s argument, which Brand famously dismissed here:
[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk[/m]
If you want trivial concessions, America and the UK are great places to get them. In that sense, yes, change happens all the time. The problem is that it’s meaningless change. Our entire social system is still engineered from the bottom up in favor of concentrated private capital above people.
You’re also grossly misrepresenting Russell when you suggest that not voting is his idea of effecting change. Nowhere has he said anything like that. He only suggests that voting accomplishes nothing worthwhile, and perpetuates the illusion of popular consent.
the ONLY way to get things done is to participate instead of claiming that apathy is action
This is a regurgitation of Paxton’s argument, which Brand famously dismissed here:
[m]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk[/m]