Interview with Edward Snowden
>The class of which I am a part of, the global technological community, was for the longest time apolitical. We have this history of thinking: "We're going to make the world better."<p>I think a lot of people in the tech community need to come to grips with the fact that you can't be apolitical in a democratic country.  Refusing to engage in politics is an abdication of your role in a democratic society.  You certainly have the right to do that, but that abdication can't be apolitical.  It is instead a tacit endorsement of the status quo.  How good or bad that is depends on your personal politics and whoever happens to be in political control at the time.<p>One example that I think most people on HN can agree on is climate change.  You can either work to fight climate change or you are allowing our current path of ignoring the problem to continue.  Think of it like inertia.  If we don't interact with a political issue, it will keep moving unchanged forever.  The only way it changes is when we apply political force to it.