That helplessness that you feel Patrick, is not a personal problem. It is built into the system. You have been taught, ever since you were a child, that people knew better than you, your parents knew better, your teacher knew better, your boss knew better, your doctor knew better, the government knows better. That message suits this system, disempowers you. To find your own authentic voice is not easy. But that is what P2P is about. It is sharing, it is collaboration with people on the same level. It is a new way of relating with respect and dignity for each person, friend, stranger, acknowledging we are all part of one family. Maybe what we can accomplish on the global scale is very small, but the feeling we can get from doing what we can is transformative, and can turn that helpless feeling into positive creativity.

anna

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius@gmail.com> wrote:

I think the tragedy of the commons is also
partly caused by a feeling of helplessness
combined with the (partially true) belief
that things are already so bad and the
amount we each add, individually, is so

small, that it hardly matters whether each
of us adds to the problem or not and so
we choose the short-term benefits over
the long-term benefits because it seems
(it feels as though) no matter what we do,

the end result will be the same.

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