No power --> no responsibility --> throw hands up in the air and keep accomplishing nothing, while pointing the finger back at everyone saying it's their fault.
It's the mindset of an 8-year old child.
It is, at the most fundamental level, un-American, a betrayal of generations before us.
> You are encouraging people to believe they are powerless and stop doing anything themselves
I'm not! I'm saying people should spend their limited energy on improving things they can actually change. This is usually things in your family, workplace, neighborhood. The average person can make a real difference for people that way.
Trying to personally change the global climate will achieve nothing, while the people around you miss the help you could have given.
BTW, in hindsight, the Arab Spring was a disaster that ended with millions dead, and no real improvements, aside from maybe Tunisia.
> the Arab Spring was a disaster
That has nothing to do with how it was organized.
You are encouraging people to believe they are powerless and stop doing anything themselves. Action and collective action are very powerful and have changed the world. The Internet should empower that (and did, such as during the Arab Spring) but sadly, it is now used to shut it down through this kind of messaging.
Who does that messaging - despair, you are powerless, you are nothing - who does it serve? There you will find its source, I think.