The Definition of a Social Movement is all explained in the video above, but while watching this video I started to think about how much time, money, and effort it takes to start a fire that will light and burn everything in its path.
It takes lots of money to start campaigns for a presidency or for a rally like Occupy. What I really didn't understand though is that we spend so much money as a society on these campaigns, but we can't spend it on movements, like helping to end homelessness, or ending poverty/genecide in Africa? Now, I understand that we live in a very imperfect world and that their will always be those people with wealth and power who will spend a lot of their moneys for charities and movements of the like, but look at the people in the middle class or the lower/working class. We are starting to live in an economy where people are either on the high end of income and those of the very low end with no middle. It is very hard to start a movement with the amount of money some have and some who don't know really how to start one who would, and those who just don't know many people willing to donate. Today, society is scared to step out and say that they want change because they will be socially criticized, ostricized, which makes it very difficult to step out. What should someone do to step out? What should someone do to make a distinct change?
I somewhat agree to your comment on how today's society is scared. I think the reason to this have something to do with the national media. This make it difficult because not only does people have to deal with people within their community, but also with people nationally. Some people just don't want all that attention, which results in not wanting to step out and cause change.
ReplyDeleteYou raised a very good point about how so much money is raised for these rallies, but people can't come together for an important cause. It's sometimes hard to understand how campaigns raise so much money when you look at the amount of charities that need funding but can't receive any. I agree that people are sometimes scared to speak up for a cause for the fear of being outcasted. But, with social media I do believe that more than ever people are now starting to realize that they can speak out and make a difference. Because of social media people can now find others with common views and organize to start social movements.
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