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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( I’m typing-out all the text, as that is an image, which means it isn’t indexed-as-text by any search-engine spidering this page, & I want that text spidered, getting into the search-engines )
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
Which is why I cannot understand why people aren’t simply repurposing Lemmy to be a self-publishing platform, where one puts each category/subject in its own /c/ and one can keep publishing articles all the time, no hassling with any owner-platform, or whatever,
& then one can just have a FundRazr for ( hopefully, not too likely, though, given the get-but-never-give culture this world has bottle-fed into the last few dozen generations ) getting paid.
The Guardian fired most of their journalists, now, in the change-of-ownership, & that’s only a single example of how “journalism” works, nowadays ( ALL the others are equally selling-out journalism, ttbomk… …sigh… )
so, self-hosting, making one’s own platform, seems to be the only sane alternative, then just federate with whom you want…
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