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Under capitalism, kayaking the time to get to know your neighbors is revolutionary behavior. When things go sideways, the people in direct geographic proximity to you are going to be the ones in best position to support you (and one another). It's best to start laying that groundwork asap.
Being involved in wider activism is also a grounding and fulfilling. You don't need to join a revolutionary socialist party like PSL (but you can if you want to go hard), even joining a park cleanup day or something like that is a good place to be.
Now I'm picturing sitting in my neighbour's driveway in a kayak chatting them up. Then, slooooowly, and loudly, paddling over to the next neighbour's house until I know everyone or my kayak is destroyed.
This could work if you live in Venice or something, but i meant *taking* damnit