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Maybe I'm an ecohacker
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Look, I do not make my own shampoo because I tried and it really didn't work out for me. I am 100% sure that there are other activists who are more ecological, others who have a lower footprint. I do what I can and just try to be a better person every day in small ways. I remind myself that anything is better than nothing. I learned a while back that impact is not directly related to effort. Sometimes impact comes in the form of a ripple effect. I'm pretty good at seeing which bits of mostly effortless actions have escalated impact sometime in the future.
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This week, I committed to writing a paper/book/something with an open sourcer whom I met at the beginning of my career. She has been fighting the good fight and her path has been like mine. We have been fluttering around the world of tech and media and data and Internet and a deep desire to pull the worlds of activism and nonprofit towards openness. We'll collaborate and publish this thing as a contribution to the Open Organisation, an open leadership community I've been contributing to for...well, almost 6 years now.
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I also had a meeting with some one from Greenpeace Ops, the badass side of the organisation that plans and executes actions. For years I've been having fantasies about Greenpeace doing more in the tech activism space. The organisation should be using its voice to combat disinformation and surveillance capitalism and to stand up for privacy. As I've said about a zillion times, Greenpeace is not an environmental organisation, it's an ecological one. Humans are part of ecology and our well being and ability to live in a peaceful world falls within Greenpeace's mission. We just need to connect the dots, connect the dots.
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Lastly on the work updates, we are THIS CLOSE to being finished with the Digital Strategy for yet another climate focused non-profit, Julie's Bicycle. This week we walked them through the overarching vision, and they were all smiles. I am super happy because I would have had to fight them had they told us that they weren't interested in the impact we can help them have using all things open.
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Maybe I'm abstracting
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Germany has gone into lockdown again, and I am having a hard time not being bitter and cold to the people (anti-vaxxers) who have caused this. I had a philosophical conversation on the matter and played, as I tend to do, the game of trying to change my own mind. I fell down the rabbit hole of my own feelings around autonomy and independence. In some cases, I argued for the ultimate right to have sovereignty over one's own body. But no matter how far away from the pandemic the conversation goes, I can't convince myself that other people do not matter. My freedom ends where yours begin, and vice versa by the fucking way.
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I see individualism as a plague in conservatism and liberalism alike. People, in general, are quick to assume that you are only looking out for number one because, sadly, most people are only looking out for number one. Establishing yourself as a person who is selfless first is impossible and saying that you are only makes you look more like a liar. There's nothing to be done except to let the misunderstanding wash over you and show yourself some serious love.
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Maybe I need help?
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I am still struggling with motivating myself believe it or not. I want to make art again and share it with the world. But it's dark and it's winter and for now I just need to wait.
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