How we became a dictatorship. Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill,

Blocking a road for a bit, seems to worse than multiple people assaulting one person.

Prisons are going to get really f***ing full if they lock people up every time theres a delay on the M25.

Car is king

and that's why we're all going to die on this rock, having failed as a species.

Money is king. Oil produces money. Cars consume oil.

Fehinti Balogan’s address to the Scottish parliament
a couple of years ago makes the point very well.

The thing is - progress, a better society, justice - is possible, just not in the way we go about doing it. It's really important to understand the system first.

Our individual agency is completely servile to the structure agency - which means that we can't even think outside the constraints that the system is imposing on us. The constraints come in the shape of norms, laws, culture, the design of the social and politicial institutions. Even the communication and the language are all subject to structure's infrastructure.

Most people can't think outside the execution paths that are "provided and endorsed" by the system. So, if you want to do something, you use the procedures that the system wants you to use - activism, lobbying, voting - and no wonder nothing happens.