What are some things the average person can do to improve the world?

submitted by Aureus from (self.AskSaidIt)

Some of my ideas:

  • Start a garden

  • Start a family

  • Start a business that provides something genuinely valuable

  • Befriend your neighbors

  • Attend local town halls

  • Run for a local office

  • Boycott companies with bad practices

  • Support companies with good practices, especially local small businesses

What else?

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Stop watching corporate media.

[–]jmichaelhudsondotnet 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Stop getting news from television, at all.

Documentaries are allowed, in depth, real documentaries. Louis Theroux, Adam Curtis, Frontline are the standard.

The human mind has still not adapted to television, we are like moths to flame, so easily manipulated. The overton window is now an overton pinhole.

reading ftw

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nice! How about:

  • degoogle to take control over your own data and privacy
  • refuse to play the rigged game of voting for the lesser of two evils
  • understand why people have different politics/philosophies than you

[–]astronautrob 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Meditate

[–]throwaway123412 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It makes me happy to see posts like this. I think just sharing an uplifting attitude and even just a positive personal frame of mind does quite a lot because of ripple effects from that good attitude.

  • I think "be a genuine friend" covers a lot of the good in the world.
  • take good care of yourself. physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, in all aspects. it means you are less likely to burden others, and it puts you in a better position to be generous and genuinely helpful.
  • provide a positive and uplifting environment for people. A lot of people used to get this from Church (at least where I'm from) I think, but a lot of people have decided to no longer do Christianity and have lost that now.
  • related: write, produce uplifting content in a way that's easy to access for people who are looking for it.
  • be trustworthy.
  • use local native plants in your garden
  • be strong enough to offer people who need it protection and a way out from those who are trying to hurt them or exploit them or keep them trapped.

I think "average" people may underestimate how much "average" "mundane" good things matter. Sam was the hero of LOTR, and the most important thing he did was just be a good friend. It seems mundane until it's not anymore because you've lost it sacrificing important things to grasp at some goal (the parable of the ring).

Halfway through writing this reply I decided to call a loved one and I had a nice conversation because of this post, OP.

[–]Aureus[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Great post, thanks!

[–]jmichaelhudsondotnet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://archive.is/2gVPq

Hi, working on these things. See my other comment in ITT.....

Thank you for being someone real on the internet, maybe we can be friends someday.

[–]samwhiskey 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Take lsd every now and then

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Mushrooms is a more attractive option.

[–]jmichaelhudsondotnet 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Doing any drug alone does not improve the world and may make it a worse place.

Also, the police are the primary distributors of lsd now.

[–]jmichaelhudsondotnet 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

-start a static site where you list all of the most important information you have found (see my username site for example)

-write a book (see books linked at my site at leanpub or read at my static site)

-do not use tracking on your static site, no links to corp platforms like instagram or fb

-avoid anyone who is still using fb or google products, tell them you are avoiding them for this reason

-share these memes with everyone so they stop trusting nbc/abc/cbs: https://archive.is/kJKap https://archive.is/blM4a

-stop supporting israel in any way whatsoever

-identify contradictions in your life and stop believing them

-protect your language from degeneration, reject neologisms that make it difficult to agree and easy to argue

-eject anyone from your life who is manipulative and dishonest with you

-see if you can become friends with your neighbors and people who live near you

-be willing to take in a homeless person so they can get on their feet(takes 2 paychecks to get an apartment, so expect 5-6 weeks)

-stop using the word crazy, at all

-stop using a smart phone, they cannot be secured, and especially stop pointing your phone camera at other people, and using your phone in social situations like dinner when you should be interacting with human beings

-realize not everyone who reports being harassed by police and undercovers is crazy, this is real and it is happening to everyone considered to be a leadership or otherwise powerful element in the movement against tyranny and permanent war, and epstein

If you read the memes at my site you will see a lot of suggestions also.

As for myself, I asked myself this question in 2017, and I wrote all of this since then: https://leanpub.com/thebookoflongformremixmemes https://leanpub.com/mentalselfdefense https://leanpub.com/expandeddefinitions https://leanpub.com/fourparables

So I wrote a book about etymology to help repair the english language, a book on how to detect police infiltration and sociopaths, and how to protect your mind in times like this, and a book of memes and a book of short plays to explain these things from a different angle, with pictures and drama. Then I published it all for free on my own site.

And I registered these domains and made sites for them as a form of protest: thesesystemsarefailing.net decultification.org (also @decultification at twitter) globaldebate.net globalrescurehotline.net

And then I am promoting all of these things here, at soylentnews.org, voat.co, minds.com, and putting up with all of the shills and being called crazy. And being silod at twitter and shadowbanned at reddit.

Nearly complete listing of my memes archived links: https://archive.is/hfvoX

Also I have been followed and harassed in the street, bus, train and my car computer was fried without explanation in 2017.

And I am outing numundo.org and affiliated "communities" as being police entrapment operations, which also comes with some risk.

I am facing homelessness because due to my activism and things I write, and the stalking, I am finding it difficult to keep a normal job as this all affects my employers.

That is my level of "what can you do to improve the world". Some of the other responses may want to reconsider their effort level.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Remove beliefs from their being. Go to war against pride and hubris within their selves.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

An easy one that no one's mentioned yet that's mutually rewarding: volunteering.

I've volunteered all throughout Uni, at numerous organizations related to my major. The longest one I volunteered at was for a year and a half, and it was a charity that visited children who were sick with cancer or life-threatening diseases in the hospital, and also setup a free camp for them every Summer through fund-raising. Honestly, it was fun and very rewarding to know I was helping make those kids feel better.

For some of the months, I was in the office logging checks and recording donations, others I was at donation events or events hosted for children, setting them up and if they were for the kids, playing with them (once a week we'd have a large room on a hospital floor in the children's hospital, we'd play video and board games with the kids who were feeling well enough to participate). On those days, it only took an hour to two of my time. The office days, I stayed for up to 6 hours sometimes for free.

But they literally wrote me an amazing page and half letter of recommendation that you can tell is not copy and pasted and offered to speak on my behalf at any time in the future on it, and this place including all the others I volunteered at look great on my resume while I'm finishing uni. People always ask "how am I supposed to get two years of experience for an entry-level job out of college?" - this is one way.

[–]Aureus[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good post, I wish I had done this in college.

[–]NoahWebstersGhost 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Refuse to lie or to accept one.

[–]samwhiskey 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What about when your wife is pregnant and asks how she looks? If you say she looks like a fat cow you'd hurt her feelings and make the world a worse place.

[–]DffrntDrmmr 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Julian Assange would publish online that you called her a fat cow.

[–]samwhiskey 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

nooooo!

[–]Tom_Bombadil 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Become friends with your neighbors.

[–]roastpotatothief 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One more - support things that are valuable

  • pay for a good email account, VPN, software

  • contribute to openstreetmap, wikipedia, or stackoverflow

  • spend extra time and money going to independent shops with better food

  • pay for your music. use bandcamp or similar so the band really gets the money.

  • pay bloggers and poscasters. at least buy a t-shirt.

Another one - start a club. This is surprisingly very easy:

  • think of something you're interested in

  • find a forum popular in your area

  • give people a time and a place to do the thing (or can be a pub just to talk about the thing)

  • bring a friend with you in case nobody turns up the first couple of times

There are a lot of people just want to go out ad socialise, just doing anything, and are waiting for a club to join.

Talk to strangers.

[–]DffrntDrmmr 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Don't procreate.

[–]EVERYBODYPANIC 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

1-Realize that all we are told and all we are taught - all of it is falsehood and propaganda. 2-Mind your own business.

[–]m68k 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Stop using Reddit.