Human mind has a good deal of inertia - we don't like dramatic changes. Which makes our thinking more stable, but also limits our capacity of reaction when context changed.
Think elections - Trump's team attempted anything they could in the legal field... but their adversaries were acting beyond that - breaking all rules. So they won because Trump ended up with a knife on a gun fight.
Now resistance - people complained about being kicked off twitter, being gagged on facebook... All right, let's imagine that entire "big tech" is just a one huge enemy of American people (and the world, for that matters). Is that the end of the game?
Not at all. What is needed here is an ability to respond in a different dimension. For example:
No way to post your opinions and calls to action in the virtual space? Print, or even write down leaflets, and distribute them in your neighborhood. Yes it would be less efficient then broadcasting on planetary level, but then, you may also be way more precise in distributing your message just where it would work best.
No way to explain dumb people your position? Now, what does sheep understand best - pictures? Then engage and promote your fellow cartoonists, leverage "rage faces" yourself, to express the needed opinion in a way which could reach the minds you are targeting.
No way to fight "law enforcement" agents coming to your house, armed and armored, to force-inject you and your children with newest bill gates poison? Get together in groups. Give a hand to each other. And make it in a way that LE know all too well - the cost for them to tackle you would be much higher than the benefit for their bosses. Demotivate them.
No way to have the insanely rich hear how bad they hurt you? Now... how about I'd leave that as a homework to you to think what may be done in such case?
Indirect action is an art, there are no playbooks for it - which is exactly why it is so powerful. Because unexpected, and executed beyond the context where your adversary caused you harm.
Think of it.
Human mind has a good deal of inertia - we don't like dramatic changes. Which makes our thinking more stable, but also limits our capacity of reaction when context changed.
Think elections - Trump's team attempted anything they could in the legal field... but their adversaries were acting beyond that - breaking all rules. So they won because Trump ended up with a knife on a gun fight.
Now resistance - people complained about being kicked off twitter, being gagged on facebook... All right, let's imagine that entire "big tech" is just a one huge enemy of American people (and the world, for that matters). Is that the end of the game?
Not at all. What is needed here is an ability to respond in a different dimension. For example:
No way to post your opinions and calls to action in the virtual space? Print, or even write down leaflets, and distribute them in your neighborhood. Yes it would be less efficient then broadcasting on planetary level, but then, you may also be way more precise in distributing your message just where it would work best.
No way to explain dumb people your position? Now, what does sheep understand best - pictures? Then engage and promote your fellow cartoonists, leverage "rage faces" yourself, to express the needed opinion in a way which could reach the minds you are targeting.
No way to fight "law enforcement" agents coming to your house, armed and armored, to force-inject you and your children with newest bill gates poison? Get together in groups. Give a hand to each other. And make it in a way that LE know all too well - the cost for them to tackle you would be much higher than the benefit for their bosses. Demotivate them.
No way to have the insanely rich hear how bad they hurt you? Now... how about I'd leave that as a homework to you to think what may be done in such case?
Indirect action is an art, there are no playbooks for it - which is exactly why it is so powerful. Because unexpected, and executed beyond the context where your adversary caused you harm.
Think of it.
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