Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 34 minutes ago
Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with Them.
-Timothy Snyder
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This passage warns against passivity and digital complacency. Power; especially authoritarian power, thrives when people are disengaged, distracted, and isolated.
Social media and screens may provide the illusion of activism and feel good, but real change happens when people physically show up.
Getting outside, move your body, engaging with new communities, and participating in collective action, like protests or community organizing, disrupts the isolation that keeps people politically inactive.
Meeting people face-to-face fosters real relationships, deepens understanding, and builds solidarity, which is essential for resisting oppressive systems.
No, this isn’t ableist.
Far more able-bodied people are not appreciative of being able to move freely than we like to acknowledge. You should do all you can to rid yourself of the privilege of taking it for granted and do it not only for self but for the people who can’t. That’s the reality of the situation. Study groups like patriot front.us if you don’t believe me.
Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with Them.
-Timothy Snyder
——-
This passage warns against passivity and digital complacency. Power; especially authoritarian power, thrives when people are disengaged, distracted, and isolated.
Social media and screens may provide the illusion of activism and feel good, but real change happens when people physically show up.
Getting outside, move your body, engaging with new communities, and participating in collective action, like protests or community organizing, disrupts the isolation that keeps people politically inactive.
Meeting people face-to-face fosters real relationships, deepens understanding, and builds solidarity, which is essential for resisting oppressive systems.
No, this isn’t ableist.
Far more able-bodied people are not appreciative of being able to move freely than we like to acknowledge. You should do all you can to rid yourself of the privilege of taking it for granted and do it not only for self but for the people who can’t. That’s the reality of the situation. Study groups like patriot front.us if you don’t believe me.
