“We are all culpable,” Matt Nelson said before lighting himself on fire. This is the third such incident in a year.

“We are all culpable,” Matt Nelson said before lighting himself on fire. This is the third such incident in a year.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    21·
    3 months ago

    Individual revolutionary actions never change anything until suddenly they do. The Arab Spring is an obvious example.

    I want to be clear, this is a tragedy. A person opposed to genocide just died and that’s terrible, and furthermore, it’s our fault because we didn’t give him any options to oppose genocide. If we were organized he’d have options. We aren’t, and he was alone.

    • prole
      1·
      3 months ago

      The Arab Spring is an obvious example.

      And how did that one, specifically, turn out in the long run? I’m not an expert, but it is my understanding that the Arab Spring is considered by most to have been a failure.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 months ago

        Well, it successfully overthrew several governments and collapsed several countries. It accomplished something.

        The problem, of course, is that there wasn’t an organized revolutionary movement behind it. Spontaneous uprisings almost never work out for the better, we can’t just overthrow the government and then expect things to naturally work themselves out.