16/05/2026
You’ve been told again and again, that you can’t change the society. That it’s all up to some “decision makers”. As if the society was something that could be decided upon by anyone.
Governments are able to murder people in wars, institutionalize racism, misuse public money for highways and fossil fuel subsidies, support genocides, impose injustices of all forms.
They’re able to do this, because even though many, or even most, “don’t like it”, people still do accept that it happens.
We’re in year 2026, in the society, where it would not be possible to legalize selling ci******es to children. Not because some “representatives” couldn’t possibly vote for it, but because the society would simply not accept that regardless. You would never hear “oh, it is what it is. There’s nothing I can do about it”.
So how can the governments do all those other things?! Because it goes fairly smooth, doesn’t it? Little period with a bit of critique maybe? Not something that’d prevent anyone from doing something they really want.
“This is so bad” is just a thought. It only exists in your head. A thought does not exist in the physical world.
There’s nothing’s more powerful than an engaging society.
It’s the society that ultimately decides what can or cannot happen.
Even the most authoritarian dictators are just a single person in a complex society. What they say and want can only turn into a reality if the society accepts it - not whether it “likes it” or not.
A bicycle on the streets is what it takes to start reclaiming back the city. And even if they ever try to intimidate or remove you by force - they would have to bother to do that. That would have cost, that would require energy. You win, even if you “loose” - because you don’t hand in power for free to the petro-oligarchs and their puppets.
Resistance is not just a thought that can be ignored.
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Come ride your bicycle on the streets of Stockholm!
Not because it will suddenly change the world. But because it will make change easier. Smoother. More likely.
Except for regular Critical Mass, on the 3rd of June is the World Bicycle Day, and we'll join the slow ride demonstration/celebration organized by