Myths:
- "We need money to live";
- "The economy is an indicator of the nation's/country's health";
- "Those people are homeless, and their desperation often makes them dangerous. Don't give them too much, or they will try to take more";
- "Members of our families are people we can always trust, no matter what";
- "Organizing, and demanding fair wages/and planting a forest/and passing new legislation/and abolishing police systems of power abuse/and abolishing private and/or public prisons, etc., is unrealistic. Let's focus on something we can -actually- do";
- "The world is doomed anyway. What's the point?"
- "The only person who you can truly rely on is yourself"
Every one of the sentences I typed up above has some degree of truth to it, but the overall message is the same: defeatism, nihilism, and giving up on a cause, an approach to improving life, existence, and the world that is inherently more ethical than what we currently experience and empower in our average, everyday lives.
