Spurred by my thoughts about employee responsibility for corporate actions, Mambrino's Helmet insightfully framed my questions in the larger context of the apparent futility of most social and political action. Following Slovenian political theorist Slavoj Zizek's aphorism that "refusing to participate is an authentic ethical act," she suggests that it's "our task is to find a way to break out of" the existing stagnant and cynical global political economy. As she puts it, "'Dropping out' might change your life--and this has its own significance--but it won't change the world. Unless, that is, drop-outs become not a passive majority, but a force to be reckoned with." This reminds me of Vonnegut's vision of a movement of neuters ("thousands of people, outside the herd") in Deadeye Dick. I'm not quite sure how I feel about this. What do others think of the viability of such a response to our current hopelessness? What would such a movement look like? How would it work?
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