I’m a broken record about this but I cannot stand pop radicalism

I mean, the sort of thing where say a post on tumblr gets like 50,000 notes despite assuming a political worldview that if actually adopted would require a wholesale rejection of existing society, probably a vast restructuring of one’s life, probably a vigorous involvement in direct action, and while there may be 50,000 people out there who are doing that, you just know that most of those notes were just from people looking at the post and thinking “huh, this sounds cool and right-on, I guess”

People seem to be leading these weird double lives, where they will just act like “normal people” and then occasionally mouth statements that sound like they come from radical pamphlets like yeah, of course, everyone thinks that, right? and then they just carry on like it means nothing

I respect people who believe this stuff and consistently talk about it like they mean it, but I’m really confused by the people who are in the middle like this