Big Change Starts Small
October 26, 2025
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Somebody Should Do Something, How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
Philosophers Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly’s social science study Somebody Should Do Something maps how well-meaning people get stuck between personal virtue and structural inertia when confronting “everything problems.”
The authors paint a new picture of how social change happens, arguing that our most powerful personal choices are those that springboard us into working together with others—warehouse worker Chris Smalls’s unionization at Amazon is one powerful example. Taking inspiration from the writer Bill McKibben, they stress how one “important thing an individual can do is be somewhat less of an individual.”
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