About getting people to act together, I'm not so sure. I find all these organized groups to be pretty promising already, even if we're not at the level of being able to chip at high power folks
But you're right, it's not likely to happen. And you did mention the pointing directions thing and didn't realize for some reason you were talking about it.
Insightful as usual. Cheers.
I'm less sanguine, if only because I tend to immediately recognize that any weapon that can be forged by me can be used against me.
Organized groups of people running around engaged in mass vigilante justice? How can that possibly go wrong?
We don't really need to ask that question since we are currently living through the beginnings of the Age of Warlords on Steemit. Bernie Sanders, H-dude, they are representative figures around which mobs can condense and go to war against one another.
We can see how that turns out. Or rather, we will see. Right now, from ground level, it's kind of a mess and doesn't really have any promise of getting better.
Since I am a cynic, my level of belief in the essential goodness of human nature is pretty taxed in general. The things that give me the most hope our those which seem to disturb others: that very few people care about what I do and what other people do, that there is still some social friction which keeps mass movements from spontaneously forming and lynching me, and that the human resistance to being organized externally and for equal powers to innately oppose one another helps protect me against them.
You have to go for what happiness you can find in life.