Do you really have a world view or are you just lazy?

Are you a techno-phile, techno-optimist, techno-solutionist, techno-fantasist, techno-utopiast? Do you think technology and artificial intelligence (AI) will solve all our problems?

"Socialism didn't work did it, we tried that didn't we? The extreme right and left are as bad as each other, and the political parties are all the same."

"Protests don't work, letter writing doesn't work, and petitions don't work."

"It's in God's hands."

"But are they really Nazis?"

"Individual action achieves nothing, its the fossil fuel companies."

"I don't follow politics, I don't watch / listen to the news."

"Why weren't you doing this for Sudan, Congo, West Papua, [insert any whataboutism country]"

"There's no silver bullet"

"You have to understand the real world."

"We can't do this too quickly."

"But the economy!"

"The NIMBYs are the problem."

"Trump is just shaking things up."

"The market will fix it."

"It's nuanced."

"Two things can be true."

"There's nothing we can do about Palestine, and is it really genocide?"

"If only China did something about it."

"One person can't change things."

Do you look for and cherry pick that one news article that suggests you don't have to do anything? Do you say that an individual doing something achieves nothing? Do you argue to maintain the status quo?

Doing something doesn't make you an 'activist', it makes you a human being.

'Activists' aren't extremists or radicals, they are normal people with empathy responding morally to an issue.

If your world view involves you doing nothing, is it coincidence or convenience?

Do you really have a world view, or are you just lazy?