Reply To: On Tyranny Lesson 13: Practice corporeal politics
No need to apologize at all. I agree with Tara that the visualization of the silos makes quite a lot of sense. I can picture it in my mind’s eye, especially after reading about the disinformation campaigns that set up and launch in one country, execute to disseminate their messages and then these disinformation sources just pack up and leave for the next country. It should be easy enough to stop these groups as soon as disinformation is identified and the information starts circulating, but Big Tech has yet to be regulated and prefer to allow the campaigns to run to fatten their already full wallets. And that’s just the “turn a blind eye” side of Big Tech. The evil parts are not as well known, but hopefully will come to be more widely known soon. I quite like your silo analogy. But I don’t think silos are created on all platforms. Not all social media is dangerous.
I love your efforts with your activism and trying to engage others. It’s definitely a difficult challenge to encourage curiosity in those who are too busy or disinterested, but hopefully as people become more aware because the things the administration are breaking finally affect them personally, there will be more interest in doing something. It seems that many leaders get questions asking about what they can do too. I think that gathering to create these networks is helpful. This is the start of organizing the resistance – constantly finding more like-minded people to join.
I’m so glad you left this comment Dolores! Please don’t feel intimidated. Indeed, this group of readers here are thoughtful and very eloquent with their comments, but I certainly am not, and I’ve never felt anything except support, encouragement and kindness here.