This is seriously one of the profoundest insights among our modern world, dammit!

To whomever prokopetz is, I owe you, Hoomin .. that is incisive understanding!

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prokopetz

Thesis: the narrow focus on public performance over substantive action in certain activist circles has less to do with the cynical schemes to game the system for progressive brownie points, and more to do with the fact that many folks basically think social activism is a form of ritual magic. Popular histories give us images of Great Men making speeches and leading marches and circulating petitions, and completely erase all the ground-level infrastructure that made all that stuff work; the end result is that a lot of folks seem honestly to believe that bringing about social change is a matter of performing the appropriate symbolic actions and waiting for reality to reconfigure itself accordingly.

#politics #activism #discourse

I see it as good practice and normalizing not shopping at those places

Yep. The best way to affect change is to make yourself a threat to power if your demands aren't appeased. Protests by themselves aren't effective in doing so.