You've undoubtedly seen (if you're on Facebook) many people switching their profile pic to an image supporting equal marriage rights for gay people. You've also probably seen a little snark headed in that direction, or taken part in the same. I'm guilty of that, myself. But I don't mean to be too mean or too glib. I recognize the uselessness of a lot of political gestures, but I also know that politics is not separable from the field of culture and society in which we live, and that democracy is not something you do at a ballot box. Our problems are more to do with not enough people being political than with too many people being political, and if weighing in with easy gestures is the alternative to not engaging at all, I'll take it. I don't mistake this blog for something much more meaningful than a Facebook pic, after all.
More than anything, I just want them to apply this energy and this attention elsewhere, too.
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
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