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Quiet Ways To Stick It To the Man
For when you’re deeply annoyed, but also peace-loving and nonconfrontational
Look, I don’t have any answers.
I’m tired of watching the news, and I’m tired of trying to discuss politics and current affairs with others, for any number of reasons. Mainly, I don’t really fit comfortably into any reliably “conservative” or “liberal” camps, and I don’t want to.
Still, though. I’m deeply annoyed by all the disruption going on in the world around me. I fucking hate disruption.
So how does a deeply non-confrontational person go about making “good trouble”? Here’s the ideas I’ve had so far.
- Write and mail a lot of letters.
What on earth has that got to do with anything?
Let’s be honest. You probably don’t want to read a big long thing about how the U.S. post office used to be one of the glories of the modern world, but has been systematically destroyed by nonsensical policies. (Or do you? I could work on that if you’re interested.)
So here’s the takeaway: Mail service is one of the closest things to a democratic institution we’ve got. You write someone your deepest secrets and longings, you seal them in an envelope, you pay your money for a stamp, and then those…
