#complacency

[american-boyboss]

#mood #trauma #mental illness #complacency #tiktok quotes

[tips-from-a-tech-worker]

Tips for organisers - Beware the "lefty deadbeat"

During organising, you'll come across plenty of people who are at the very least vocally sympathetic to the clause.

They'll quote Marx, they'll know the entire history of the Spanish civil war, and they'll share revolutionary memes on their social media pages.

But the second they're required for some form of action or task, they'll flake, they'll make excuses, and, at worst, they'll buddy up to the boss.

It's handy to know who has left-wing sympathies, but certainly do not recruit them to the organising team or IWW simply because they define themselves as a "leftist".

Someone you had previously written off as a "conservative" or "liberal" might actually end up being a fantastic workplace organiser!

As a final note, remember that you're organising with the working class, not just the left!

#tips for organisers #union organising #union organizing #union #tips and tricks #lefty #leftist #leftism #complacency

[fieriframes]

[It's an S.O.S. sent out telepathically. Signs of our distress won't allow complacency. We need restoration now of our morality. And a drastic bold reminder of our mortality.]

#s27e13 college-town champs #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #s.o.s. #drastic bold reminder #signs #distress #complacency #restoration #morality #mortality

[subtlesolitude-tailoredtaste]

#diddy #revolt #revolt tv #hip hop #society #culture #justice #misogynoir #failures #weakest links of humanity #the horror #black men in power #cowards #complicity #complacency

[texasthrillbilly]

You said it, $#!%face.

#lost in space #alien #monster #sci fi and fantasy #decay #complacency #funny

[comradewisdom]

Those were steps for me, I have climbed up beyond them,—to do so, I had to pass them. But it was thought I would make them my resting place...

Nietzsche

#philosophy #love #power #complacency #ambition #momentum #life #friedrich nietzsche #the will to power #the will to nothing

[contemplatingoutlander]

This is a must read article if one wants to feel some hope regarding democracy in the U.S. 

I live in New England, one of the bluest regions in the US in terms of politics. I’ve been wondering what has been happening in the northern part of the region in New Hampshire lately because it seems to be embracing more and more right-wing politics. Well, now I know. The Free State Project has invaded NH.

To understand what happened — and is happening — in Croydon, you should remember the New Hampshire motto: “Live Free or Die.” [...]

You also should know that New Hampshire’s individual-rights vibe, along with its small population (1.38 million) and large legislature (400 representatives and 24 senators), has drawn libertarians like colonists to a tea party.

This includes the Free State Project, a movement that for years has promoted a mass migration of “liberty activists” to the state so as to seed a kind of limited-government Shangri-La. The group espouses “radical personal responsibility,” “constitutional federalism” and “peaceful resistance to shine the light on the force that is the state,” its website says. [emphasis added]

In many New England towns budgets and policies are decided directly by residents at town meetings. This is the story of what happened at one eventful town meeting in March 2022 in Croydon (population 800) to approve

“the proposed $1.7 million school budget, which covers the colonial-era schoolhouse (kindergarten to fourth grade) and the cost of sending older students to nearby schools of their choice, public or private.” [emphasis added]

At the last minute, 60 year-old Ian Underwood, a town selectman spoke up “and threw a sucker punch to the body politic.“

Calling the proposed budget a “ransom,” he moved to cut it by more than half — to $800,000. He argued that taxes for education had climbed while student achievement had not, and that based in part on the much lower tuition for some local private schools, about $10,000 for each of the town’s 80 or so students was sufficient — though well short of, say, the nearly $18,000 that public schools in nearby Newport charged for pupils from Croydon.

In pamphlets he brought to the meeting, Mr. Underwood asserted that sports, music instruction and other typical school activities were not necessary to participate intelligently in a free government, and that using taxes to pay for them “crosses the boundary between ‘public benefit’ and ‘private charity’.” [emphasis added]

At the low attendance town meeting, Underwood’s budget proposal passed by a vote of 20 to 14. Underwood’s wife, the school board chair, Dr. Jody Underwood, “a learning scientist with a doctorate in education,” had supported her husband’s proposal at the meeting.

The shocking budget cut meant that the school board suddenly had to craft a new financial plan, while many parents suddenly had to come up with thousands of dollars to keep their children in public schools.

“I would have to put in an extra thousand hours of work a year,” said Ed Spiker, 38, a painting contractor whose two sons attend Newport public schools. [...] Dr. Underwood, meanwhile, smiled as she recalled the amendment’s passage. She also noted that “people were pissed.” [...] But they were also chastened. They hadn’t attended the town meeting. They hadn’t fulfilled their democratic obligation. They hadn’t kept informed about the Free State movement. To some observers, they had gotten what they deserved. [...] “As citizens we have many rights, but we also have obligations,” said Wayne Lesperance, a political science professor at New England College, in Henniker, N.H. “And when we don’t fulfill our obligations, we often end up with results we don’t like.” [emphasis added]

Read the article to see how residents of the town got together and formed a nonpartisan group called We Stand Up for Croydon Students, and got the school budget decision reversed by a vote of 377 to 2.

The group originally known as We Stand Up for Croydon Students is now called We Stand Up for Croydon. Its members met in a living room a couple of weeks ago to discuss future plans, including how to confront that central threat to democracy, complacency. [emphasis added]

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Croydon Village School photo sources (before edits): 01 + 02 

#us politics #croydon new hampshire #free state project #democracy #complacency #get out and vote #the new york times #we stand up for croydon #dan barry #my edits

[hauntedgardenking]

Choking forgotten journal dust as if my hands don’t know the alphabet

My lips lie in buried marching bands autumn wishes and the like

The heart is spent cinders nagging lyrics at back of notebooks

You see, an errant chord roiling in the sheets have been spent nights goose egg behind the eye lids. And the summer solstice rests between my teeth, gummed up ribbons of cannabis wreckage all shattered breathless. This isn’t how I envisioned the seats beyond laying motionless in poppy fields excavating tediously written, drafted, deleted. And maybe it’s all at the bottleneck, Anthropocene Blues, a monolith to great expanse green lawns meticulously manicured. There is no saliva at the canines, I am not biting mad bark knuckled and dragging fruitless. All I’m wishing for is rain, any low pressure system dance will ring truth across my back, knees muddied not this cloudless pupils and 90 degree heat.

#poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #life #complacency

[pathtoredemption-poems]

Tomorrow Forgets Today

All routine

Removed

The status

Changed

-

What I knew

So long, so long

Who I was

Goodbye, goodbye

-

Chaos

Change

Challenge

Triumph

-

The rules

That bound me

Now lost

I’ve been freed

-

Once I was static

Once I was unmoving

Now though, now though

I am unchained and changed

-

Discomfort

Delusion

Depravity

Peace

-

The box shifts

And changes

Guidelines

Delinearating

-

Yesterday has been complacent

Yesterday never would’ve changed

So today I look for tomorrow

Tomorrow I forget today

-

Enthralled

Enveloped

Enslaved

Liberated

-

The water will flow

And the debris will clear

Mountains will rise

Valleys will be bored

Tomorrow will forget today

And I will forget, too

#poems #poetry #poet #poem #writing #change #tomorrow #today #yesterday #static #unchanging #complacency #outside of the box #art #writerscreed

[howifeltabouthim]

I suppose one gets a habit of doing without happiness or hope.

George Eliot, from Middlemarch

#hopeless #unhappy #used to it #the worst feeling #complacency #resignation #without hope #bleak #depressing #sad #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #what a line #classics #george eliot #middlemarch

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

The Day of the Lord

At that time I, the Lord, will search Jerusalem with lamps.    I will punish those who are settled and satisfied with themselves.    They are like wine left to settle. They think, ‘The Lord never does anything.    He won’t help us or punish us.’ — Zephaniah 1:12 | International Children’s Bible (ICB) The Holy Bible, International Children’s Bible® Copyright© 1986, 1988, 1999, 2015 by Thomas Nelson. Cross References: Jeremiah 16:16-17; Jeremiah 48:11; Ezekiel 8:12; Ezekiel 9:4; Ezekiel 9:9; Amos 6:1

#Lord #search #Jerusalem #punishment #complacency #Zephaniah 1:12 #Book of Zephaniah #Old Testament #ICB #International Children’s Bible #Thomas Nelson

[tips-from-a-tech-worker]

Tips for organisers - Don't do everything yourself!

It can be very tempting to get into the habit of picking up lots of tasks just because its easier or more convenient. The issue here is everything lands on your shoulders, and everyone else sits back.

This leads to a couple of issues. One, you will 100% burn yourself out. And two, nobody else will be getting any organising experience.

Even worse, it might lead to a degree of complacency amongst the rest of the people you are organising with. People are what they do, and they get better at that over time. If they're doing nothing (because all opportunities are being taken from them), then they will only get better at doing nothing.

#tips for organisers #union organising #union organizing #union #tips and tricks #lefty #leftist #leftism #complacency

[hathaway-hayes]

070

My flights come and go; But the evergreen’s my slouch As I’ve already

Grown wings.

H.H. (2014)

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#calm #choice #complacency #featured #flight #home #poem #Poetry #sanctuary #warriorpoet

[critical-skeptic]

The Dangers of Complacent Optimism: A Reality Check on Global Warming

Our species has a history of defying the odds and coming through in the nick of time, showcasing our knack for innovation and resiliency. However, the risk of complacent optimism—resting easy on past successes—becomes extraordinarily dangerous when confronted with a crisis as existential and complex as global warming. I recently encountered a social media post that has spurred me into a contemplative discourse on this very issue.

The discussion was triggered by a graph shared by Hank Green showing the decline of solar panel prices, a staggering 400x drop since 1977, offering a glimmer of hope in the midst of dire environmental challenges. One commentator amusingly, albeit sardonically, suggested that humanity tends to "cut it close," implying a last-minute save-the-day scenario that has often played out in our history. Although this viewpoint may seem encouraging and speaks to our collective capacity for problem-solving, it strikes me as dangerously oversimplified and detached from the sobering reality that is the climate crisis.

To expect that we will simply "pull it off" as we have in past crises is an alarmingly naïve perspective. The decline in solar panel costs, while positive, is not a panacea for the multifaceted issues contributing to global warming. It's vital to assess the wider context—the adoption rate of renewable energy technologies, inflation trends, job inequality, technological acceptance, and more. Yes, solar panels are becoming more affordable, but the cost of complacency? That's a price we simply can't afford to pay.

Then there are the hypothetical "solutions" which, while hyperbolic, underscore the direness of our situation: unleashing catastrophe to effect change, or allowing artificial intelligence free reign to design a solution. Both scenarios carry hefty implications. A catastrophe, either ecological or economic, would result in untold suffering. As for granting AI carte blanche authority, such a notion, despite its futuristic allure, is fraught with ethical quandaries and potential pitfalls we can't yet foresee.

We've already overshot most estimates for environmental thresholds. The last two weeks alone have seen the highest temperatures on record, with global averages this year .15 °C (.27 °F) higher than usual. In this context, the grim scenarios I've painted aren't merely hyperbole but potential realities—we are at a crisis point that demands drastic action. Either we proactively implement radical changes ourselves—the 'brute force' approach—or we could be forced to defer to AI's cold, utilitarian logic, effectively acknowledging our species as Earth's malignant growth.

This isn't to suggest that we should fall into a pit of despair or pessimism, but rather an urgent call for proactive, comprehensive, and coordinated action. Now is not the time for complacency spurred by an overly rosy view of our potential. We must use our resources, our intellect, and our technology to effect real, meaningful change—now. Not in the eleventh hour, but in this very moment, for every second we delay, we are borrowing time from future generations. And those generations may not have the luxury of optimism, let alone the last-minute saves we have become so comfortable with.

#climate crisis #climate change #global warming #el superniño #scorched earth #dystopia #capitalism #ai #catastrophe #hank green #the critical skeptic #optimism #complacency #GPT4-emulated

[its-all-down-hill]

#truth #complacency

[maia-07]

Reinventarse es más cansado de lo que parece.

La pesadez de dejar ir la persona que creías que eras, aceptar que aquello que te conformaba no era más que pedazos fragmentados de personas con el único objetivo de querer complacer, de querer ser suficiente.

#notas #pensamientos #complacency #crisis #cringe