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Unlearning? Remove the taught perspective of life and society. Reconnect with your own self, know your body. Remove pointless culture and consumerism from your life. Then things become more clear if you do not have things polluting your body and mind. Slowly you will reattach to honest humanity and notice the things marketed to you, products, lifestyles, etc, are not necessity and actually detach you from self and authentic humanity.
That's all great steps 6 to 10 advice, but for anyone who never learned how to unlearn, it'll fall on deaf ears. It's vague and intimidatingly unactionable. I meant some easy, low-cost, entry-level step toward what you're describing, which is nearer to the zenith of what we should be trying to achieve. It's like telling someone who might be interested in becoming enlightened, to, you know, just become enlightened.
My favorite first step toward being a more active component in my community was to go to the local library (bringing with me a piece of mail addressed to me at my address in the same jurisdiction as the library itself as well as a form of identification) and signing up for a library card. I would then see what upcoming programs are being held and then go to some of them to meet other people. Or I'd browse the book selection and specifically try to find books written about social activism or classic dystopian novels. Maybe even see if there are any acclaimed 'how to protest' books. My personal recommendation is The Dictator's Handbook and I just picked up The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes- and Why, which seems good so far.
The problem I'm having is I'm pretty unlearned in the art of effective activism, and that ignorance is intimidating and paralyzing. I don't want to screw it up and potentially get hurt or taken advantage of and without a trusted guide, it's unlikely I'll give it a try. That's the kind of specific, actionable, realistic advice I meant to solicit, not lofty goals of razing and rebuilding an entire socioeconomic worldview. I mean, that would help, but even it is a poor guide for taking real actions in the physical world.
Your not wrong. It is like a craft. You can't learn how to do it, it comes to a person at their own speed. If you try to force it, it result in what organized religion got, false followers and a soulless image to follow that is essentially fake.
Your steps sound good for you. There's no set steps because everyone's so unique with different learning styles.
Your anxieties are understandable. We are in a time where people are being forced to hold a role if they want to live a real life. When I say role i mean make history. It's.like we are living in a time where the history book is being written in real time. We got taught about certain characters of the past, but this is right now. Anyone right now can take their place in the history of America. It's almost like a business boom, like the internet boom. I think we are witnessing harsh reality. The anxiety felt is raw reality and we were taught such a privileged life we don't know how to deal with it.