There are a few steps you need to take to evolve from internet propaganda bot to real human helping real humans. These steps are true regardless of what movement you plan to join but are requirements to become a member of the reconstructivist movement.

First and foremost, you don’t need our permission or approval to help out. These resources are set up so you can learn what you need to be more useful both on your own and as part of your local community.

We don’t have gold stars or volunteer sheets to give out. We’re not an organization with authority to say you did a good job.

As such, getting involved with the movement is more about getting involved outside of the movement, doing the things that the movement is meant to empower and inspire.

Even still, we want to help you put your best foot forward. Here are the first steps to breaking free of victimized citizenship and actually having an impact on your reality;

From Victims to Victors

Being a victim is too passive for activism. The only place where you want to consider yourself a victim is in the court of an oppressive state.

Outside of that, you need to recognize that victim psychology defers all of the power to improve your situation to other people.

You should have safe spaces where you can feel free without worry. However, you shouldn’t expect any public interactions to be a safe space.

Victim psychology increases the risk of harm just so you can feel like you’re not at fault for what happens to you. However, you are more at fault for what happens to you as an adult than anyone else is.

Do not be stupid just because you are entitled to be.

This isn’t saying that abusers aren’t responsible for their own actions. Just that you can’t trust any system to hold them accountable before they harm you.

If you take on passive victim psychology as an activist, you will be derailed by the nearly inevitable harm people are going to try to cause you.

Victims don’t win wars.

Turn On Your Damn Brain

The next step to becoming a activist is reconstructing your own perspective around your ability to provide real value, not just knowing and regurgitating the “correct” answers for clout.

While we’re happy to guide people who want to help humanity, the most important thing you can do is get out of this perspective where you need people to tell you how to be useful.

We all share the same reality. You could understand it and determine a course of action for yourself.

You have the ability to figure things out. You have the ability to recognize and solve problems without anyone ever knowing that a problem existed.

School and your job spent decades telling you it’s more important that you do what you’re told as consistently as possible. That doesn’t serve you as an individual or humanity as a whole.

We don’t have the centralized structure to constantly tell everyone what is best for them to be doing. You need to take responsibility for figuring shit out for yourself.

Get Involved With Real People

This is a movement based on human trust. We can discuss systems and codes and communication all day, but if we don’t trust people to both want to good and to be competent enough to succeed in their intentions, then we can’t get anywhere.

And while we all have likely found solace in various online communities over the years, it’s critical to have IRL contacts. Both for your psychological stability and safety and for the stability of any broader movement to support humanity.

If your activism only exists on the internet and the internet gets shut off, what’s your plan?

It’s important to remember that the internet is supposed to be portals into different sections of the real world, and that it’s the real world that the internet represents that’s important, not “internet culture” itself.

Long story short, use the community resources to find people near you and go touch some grass.

Put The Whole Above The Self

Humanity doesn’t progress when each and every individual human is more worried about their own survival & success than the survival & success of the collective.

The infinite abundance of symbiosis is replaced with zero-sum scarcity that keeps us mindlessly competing even when there is more than enough to go around.

You must recognize that there are times where the “right thing to do” is to inconvenience yourself or maybe even put yourself in harm’s way for the benefit of whole.

If you are going to get to that point and fold every time, you’re not a meaningful ally of any movement.

Before you get involved with reconstructivism or any other movement, do a deep personal inventory and think of why you’re doing it. If you’re not willing to put the whole above yourself when it counts, you need to make that clear so organizers can plan accodingly.