An entire page dedicated to Occupy Wall St. Not bad, Huff.
Kinda sucks out some of my motivation as a blogger, though. The movement is joined by legitimate bloggers on a legitimate site moving in the same direction, but on a jet plane compared with my walking. I'm gonna try to look on the bright side. But it's hard.
What's especially hard about apathy is that it comes at you from so many directions. When you feel like nothing you do will change anything, you don't want to do anything. When you feel like you want to do something anyways, and maybe even let yourself believe you might make some difference, you find out how many people are already doing the job 'better'. Better credentials, better name recognition, better reputation and online following, better political connections, more money, more influence. Who am I? I am nobody.
But then, there's something different this time. I get this hard to believe feeling that one of the most important aspects of what's going on now is that people like me are participating in rapidly increasing numbers. The power is not contained in the individual names, credentials, and resources, but in the collective.
All of a sudden, it's okay if I pour my heart out into a blog no one will ever read. It's okay if I feel foolish and idealistic. If nothing ever comes of this, I won't have wasted my time. If I don't make this choice, nothing can change. Sure I'm depending on other people - but they're depending on me too. Sure I might be let down; that's all the more reason for me not to let anyone else down.
Just 48 hours and I already feel plugged in to the community on twitter. I can't wait to see #movement trending! If it goes that far, I can say I helped start it, however small my contribution might have been. And if I never see it come to be, what have I lost?
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