Cory Doctorow

And so you're not going to like

make your consumption choices change this by all means, like make consumption choices that make you happy patronize your local bookstore instead of Amazon or like get off Twitter and onto Mastodon or blue sky, if that's what you prefer, but don't think that it's going to make a systemic change.

If you want to make a systemic change, you have to be part of a movement that changes the policy environment because it is the policy environment that gives rise to this, you know,

Elon Musk is not smart enough to be the cause.

He's the effect, right?

If Elon Musk overdoses on ketamine tonight, there'll be a succession battle of 12 horrible big balls.

And whoever emerges victorious will be indistinguishable from Elon Musk.

So we need to change the policy environment.

And the way you do that is by getting involved with

groups that work as a polity.

So as I said, I work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF.org.

You can visit that website and find out how to get involved with EFF's causes.

But in your state, you will have local political organizations, mutual aid groups, labor groups, groups that are fighting concentrated corporate power and the corruption that creates the enchatogenic policy environment.

That's where you've got to start.

And I know it's a big lift, but you're going to like it because being part of a group is amazing.

It means that instead of just like watching TikTok on a Saturday, you got a picnic to go to or a thing where you're feeding the hungry people in your neighborhood or just a party down at the union hall.

And so, um,

It sounds like a big lift because we had a lobotomy 40 years ago when we were convinced that we were just individuals and not part of groups, but it feels so good to be part of a group and you'll discover that too.

Well, you know, I was raised by a computer science teacher.

I have an honorary doctorate in computer science.