Feeling Like a Dope

I found an article over at the Free Software Foundation about a protest against ATI on the MIT campus recently. Reading stuff like this always makes me feel like a dope. I feel like a dope for not being a part of this movement.

And it isn’t just the Free Software Movement. There are so many things that I am not a big enough part of. The anti-war movement. The workers’ rights movement. The consumer rights movement. Many different civil liberties movements.

But at the same time I realize that you have to mix practicality with being a stubborn bastard. Sometimes I feel like I am compromising my morals too much. Most of the time I feel comfortable with how I live my life.

But however I feel, I look at these people – people like Ralph Nader, Richard Stallman, and Noam Chomsky – and they just provide me with more motivation to do things about what pisses me off. Maybe one of these days I’ll be more of an activist. Probably my own greed will only let me do so much.