Anonymous asked:
you do know that believing your Tumblr posts can "prevent a civil war" is magical thinking, right?
mutant-aesthetic answered:
I don’t really think that my blogging is going to change the world. I’m just hoping to make my dash a more pleasant place
The political currents are defined by larger groups of people, but we can reason about “what would we want someone like us to do in our place?” If there are enough people similar to us, then it makes sense to prefer marginal action, even if it’s statistically unlikely that any of our individual actions will produce enough change by themselves.
Economists say voting is not a rational behavior, but that fails to take this into account.