Powerless or powerfull
Posted on by December 7, 2009 by Daniel Daboczy - Editor in chief
In these times, the days before COP15, when the Nobel prize is handed out, when the Right Livelihood Award is given to people that have done something good or right, when everybody looks at TV for salvation. When we have become confortable, I stand and wonder if the methods we use today still work in these times. Does manifestations or other methods still apply for the 21:st century? Is media still the way to go through when we need publicity? Does politicians have real power anymore? Should we unite and create a massforce that no one can ignore? Should we do as we always have done?
Or should we be individualists and do whatever we can in our own backyard? Maybe it´s enough to quietly protest by choosing other paths then the easy ones?
But I can tell you something, the world will not change itself. But the world hasn´t either been destroyed by the common man, but by companies and organizations trying to make a quick buck because we thought that we need cheap and massive ammounts of stuff. And they obliged, found cheap stuff for us. And we believed that cheap is better. We built a culture that chases the best deals. But somebody, somewhere always pays the difference. What you gain on a bargain is paid somehow else, by poor people slaving for you, by nature or other.
Do you think that we would have chosen the cheap but bad way instead of the expensive good way? I can tell you that even the poorest of us would do good first. I am sure of that.
So instead of butting our heads together and acomplish almost nothing, or little in a very long time, we should go to the source, to the power, to the money. We should go to the companies and ask them, make them, convince them to be part of this movement. Companies are made by people. People are made the same as you, think the same as you and act the same as you. There for it´s given how you can change.
Just put yourself in their shoes and make a good argument!
/Daniel Daboczy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/01/q-and-a-copenhagen-summit
