The key thing to remember is that a one day blackout won’t have an effect on the corporations. What it will do is get more people comfortable with taking action. If you can go one day without buying from Amazon, two days isn’t much more, and then a week, and then a month. The idea is to ratchet up the action.
Just like how fascism has a progression to slowly “boil the frog,” collective societal action does, too. This isn’t an end but a beginning.
This is a much better plan. Much better. We should be organizing longer pauses with different targets. We should have a different one every week or longer.
Again, it’s a step for most people. For me, it was easy to leave Amazon. I found a few things ultimately to work around the stuff I couldn’t find locally.
But my parents who live in the land of Walmart basically have it and Amazon. Now I know they can find elsewise, but the convenience is there. If I tried to talk them into completely dropping Amazon, that will be a massive fight. But hey, take a break from it for a week because of this bullshit, that’s an easier conversation.
After a week it’s easier to realize you go further. I’m the oddball who’s pretty good at just doing things cold turkey.
Getting people to take part in actions that have no effect on their target can eventually make them feel that all such actions are pointless, though.
It can always be spun as a symbolic statement, but giving it the appearance of an economic boycott leads to confusion about how effective boycotts actually work.
The key thing to remember is that a one day blackout won’t have an effect on the corporations. What it will do is get more people comfortable with taking action. If you can go one day without buying from Amazon, two days isn’t much more, and then a week, and then a month. The idea is to ratchet up the action.
Just like how fascism has a progression to slowly “boil the frog,” collective societal action does, too. This isn’t an end but a beginning.
You’re half right. It does affect the corporations but not much. Change is change. Just need to be more proactive about it and keep continuing.
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This is a much better plan. Much better. We should be organizing longer pauses with different targets. We should have a different one every week or longer.
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This is the level we need to be at. Now. The minimum level.
Again, it’s a step for most people. For me, it was easy to leave Amazon. I found a few things ultimately to work around the stuff I couldn’t find locally.
But my parents who live in the land of Walmart basically have it and Amazon. Now I know they can find elsewise, but the convenience is there. If I tried to talk them into completely dropping Amazon, that will be a massive fight. But hey, take a break from it for a week because of this bullshit, that’s an easier conversation.
After a week it’s easier to realize you go further. I’m the oddball who’s pretty good at just doing things cold turkey.
Getting people to take part in actions that have no effect on their target can eventually make them feel that all such actions are pointless, though.
It can always be spun as a symbolic statement, but giving it the appearance of an economic boycott leads to confusion about how effective boycotts actually work.