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>If you want to change the world, "individual action" should be at the very last place in your list of actions to take.

The heliocentric model began with one person out of the entire population of earth having the courage to publicly, loudly, and assertively disagree with TPTB.



Presuming you're talking Europe only, are you talking Copernicus? Brahe? Kepler? Galileo? You know that the heliocentric model had been discussed 2000 years earlier in Europe.


Let's assume that correct. Now, what did that "one person" do? Just reject the idea of Earth being the center of the universe? Or actually seek ways to make an alternate model more accepted?

"Individual action" is fucking worthless. But not all types of activism are.


Guessing this might be interpreted by some as a reference to Galileo so I'll take the opportunity to mention Against Method.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method




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