@markhburton
It's not only the government lacking courage, it's the academics also working for them, paying them.

Paying the government and all these bullshit #taxes.... is very much helping it all while falsely believing in money and that it's good for certain things and not mostly all the bad meanwhile.

Academic value system itself might need to change else with one hand say something but other hand do another.

Just writing about it, NOT looking or trying for physical and mental alternatives, doesn't seem right by a long way.

JUST writing and waiting for cruel professionals to stop and listen is stupid, while you or others aren't really bonding with others.

What governments do (the impersonal) and what they intend (as a business upon people) doesn't stop by begging or even pointing it out.

Being intellectual like this has limits unless you want to make a living from writing about the #shitshow without actually trying to live or do different... e.g. move out of the city.

I'm sure some of it some do, but for the most part feeding the system overly while not risking much.

So by feeding them (money, taxes, time, lack of personal contact with others) and not actually aiming for alternative ways to do things = YOU are quite in the same colonial style boat.

And if not talking to people differently other than academically or monetarily or whatever standards you hold and respect - you are copying the government ways with those standards that filter out alternatives more often.

This comment isn't to villainise you but show: You might be practically in the same colonial boat or overly copying them, even filtering out others.

Look at what academics do (or more what they don't do).
Enough writing already. Courage (or "pusillanimous" as you say) is doing the endless 1-to-1 and linking people (actual growth instead of #degrowth into more #fascism / #tyranny) and even with more semi-anonymous people protecting themselves has to be respected online, more than thinking it's anything against you of suspicious in these climates / types of corporate players / governments.

Get out of the city and stop funding them in various ways of paying for it all, otherwise really listen and talk to people like you and care.

Don't say you don't have time or because you have your family and I have mine - but because maybe more we should all be towards 'family' or some sort of link... certainly not just write another general piece about it.

We all lose that way from impersonal / non-personal distances. And need to all do the listening personally we can for each other to get what best we can after positively (even in the negatives). Don't expect the governments to do that! There is only us, right ?!

We can't withhold our attention and ears and trust from each other... even if it's step-by-step.

GET REAL ! We're all scared and just have to find another game and bond somehow - maybe not all in the city where we're much more trapped by the system,
right ?!

Dictionary Definition:
pusillanimous
= "Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful"