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I’m getting tired of that Mr Roger’s “look for the helpers” quote. I am one of the helpers, and I’m telling you that there are not enough of us

The quote is advice for children. It’s not telling adults to look for helpers. It’s telling adults to be helpers

Someone used that quote in response to a post I made about fascists lighting houses on fire in Belfast. Wouldn’t need to look for helpers there if we didn’t let loyalists burn houses down to begin with

It reminds me of the line. “You’re not in traffic. You are the traffic” Too many people view themselves as observers to a problem. And not a part of why there is a problem in the first place.

It's sort of human nature to view the world as something that happens around us, rather than ourselves as part of it.

I think seeing yourself as part of a system is a learned habit maybe? Like those of us who engage with the world that way did it intentionally?

Yeah, we are taught to be consumers of the world, and it takes some amount of reprogramming to actually see ourselves as active participants

Well, maybe “we” is overly broad. I do think certain people (cishet white men) are taught to be active participants at everyone else’s expense