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I don’t know how to put this succinctly, but I read recently about someone feeling like they’re an outsider looking into the world of “normal” people. I feel a bit of the opposite, like I’m a “normal” person just realizing how shit it is to be part of the problems in our world right now-I’d much rather be an outsider to all of it so I couldn’t accept responsibility. I’m just as much of a contributor to everything bad as any other peer in the world. It’s not like I can pinpoint one certain thing I do that makes me feel that way, but I realize how often I judge other people for thinking they’re the perpetrators in everything wrong with society, when I’m not doing anything that differently from the rest of them. It goes the opposite way in that no matter how helpful I think I’m being to contribute to some “greater good,” I still feel I’m doing the bare minimum, and feel culpable in my smallness and ability to enact long lasting in the way I’d like to see the world.

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 16 points 1 day ago

I think it is a very healthy feeling that you have there. We can all help make this world a better place and people have done so in the past.

It is arguably much easier to just start doing things if you dont have to leave the warmth of the herd. But i think you can do it.

Depending on where you live, you can start by contacting people who volunteer for social projects like soup kitchens etc. You can start reading up on class struggle and politics from a more scientific and less biased perspective, etc.

Feel free to contact me if you need more ideas. Good luck.