The Sentinelese Hypothesis
someone i know through a very indirect chain of friends one day told this hypothesis.
you know how there's this island named the North Sentinel Island where the "Sentinelese" live? because of the sentinelese being who they are, we don't know when they have settled on this island, so presumably there would be thousand years of history of the sentinelese that most of us people from the "outside" couldn't and wouldn't give a fuck. at the end he concluded, "a great number of great things could've happened, a great number of people could've been suffering or dying, but none of that made a sound, none of that made a meaningful difference outside of that island."
for whatever reason his words stuck in my head these days and i couldn't get it out.
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there are only so many times you could tell the same story before everyone gets bored and move on with their lives, and there are only so many words you can yell before everyone gets annoyed. this is the limit of online activism - at least the limit of *my* online activism.
...but none of that made a sound, none of that made a meaningful difference outside of that island.
i'll cut back on the related activities for now - there's only so much energy you can spend on one singular thing.
also, from a blog draft:
...Oftentimes I claim on the Internet that I'm a proud Cantonian, even though I know deep down inside that I'm not and I'm only supporting Cantonia independence because being anything else is way better than being a Chinese; I'm not a Cantonian, I'm a 1990s World-ian (or a "vaporwave-ian" if you will, for a lack of better words); my motherland was already gone even before I was born, and my dream of being able to reenact that has been totally destroyed. I doubt any effort could bring that dream-like consumerism-filled globalized world back again; that's why I choose to go for the nadir of the rollercoaster course, just to escape from the destiny of going further down into the pits of hell.
RRC 2023.6.14
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