Philosophy

Currently, we’re living through rising fascism, late-stage capitalism, and accelerating climate change.

We’re all living trapped inside interconnected bullshit that keeps us separated — white supremacy, patriarchy, class domination, colonialism, and institutional supremacy — all designed to sort us into hierarchies and keep us competing instead of connecting. Capitalism then profits from this division and exhaustion, while the very institutions meant to protect us continue with their reductive binaries in order to maintain their power.

So the question is: what the fuck are we going to do about it?

The problem is that most of us are too busy consuming outrage on social media to find time to create actual change. The billionaire tech bros have us exactly where they want us: isolated, anxious AF, and too exhausted from performing our bullshit online to do the actual work offline. We’ve retreated into these pointless digital echo chambers, mistaking our likes for impact and our awareness for actual action.

Yet here’s the reality: If we want to protect future generations from accelerating fascism and climate change, we need to transform the culture that sustains this interconnected bullshit now. We need to create, build and maintain the alternative culture to white supremacy, patriarchy, colonialism, and everything that keeps us sorted into who matters and who doesn’t. Not just sit through the fuckery hoping for the best, but fundamentally changing how we think about power, oppression, and possibility.

Change doesn’t just happen. It takes planning, strategy, people. It needs to be planted, nurtured, and grown through daily practice, with real conversations in people’s living rooms, and with consistent sustained action.

Enter stage left FictionToAction, where we use the power of fiction and center relational organizing to use your existing connections to revolutionize your own living room.

For example, watch Succession with your boomer parents and suddenly you’re talking about wealth inequality without anyone getting defensive. Or start a book club with The Fifth Season and watch people naturally start connecting systemic oppression to geological catastrophe.

Because when you’re talking about dragon hoarding or random dystopian governments, people’s defenses instantly come down. They stop protecting and preaching their own political identity and instead start actually thinking. Fiction so crucially gives us the distance we need to see our own systems clearly. It enables critical thinking in a non-confrontational manner.

That’s where FictionToAction comes in. We’ve done the work of connecting the dots for you — building frameworks, worksheets, and discussion guides that help you turn any story into an organizing conversation. All you need is a living room and people you care about.

Because changing culture isn’t about winning arguments online — it’s about creating spaces where people can actually change their minds. Because no one is ever going to have their mind broadened because some dickhead yelled at them on Facebook. Yet they might change their mind when someone they trust helps them connect the dots between their own struggles and systemic oppression.

Every single successful movement in history has happened because people talked to each other face-to-face, they built trust and rapport, and they created networks that an algorithm could not fuck with. And that is what thousands of us at FictionToAction are also doing.

The revolution will definitely not be tweeted . . . but it might just start with a conversation in your kitchen tonight. We’re ready when you are.