Eh. I mean, any revolution is just as much a war of propaganda as it is a physical war. Sure the media's going to tear into you the entire time (16 negative WP Bernie articles in a single night, anyone?), but an organized effort of brigading to expose and undermine the media's inherent bias needs to be a part of building dual power. That's one of the reasons I frown when people pass off any revolutionary acts of violence as just adventurism, you need those efforts to hold up as models for people that your brigading should be taking advantage of. Normalize, normalize, normalize. Heighten the contradictions and hold up alternatives. People need heroes and role models so they can shape their goals and see the possibilities.
The problem is propaganda is decentralized you no longer have only one or two narratives to choose from anymore. Weather your a radical Maoist , a weird k hive person, a lolbratarian, or a neo nazi someone somewhere is telling you exactly what you wanna hear.
Well yeah, but we don't choose shit. We generally follow the path of least resistance which is how we fall into pipelines. But we can also take advantage of same sort of techniques that social media companies are using to create these echo chambers. I've talked about this before, but for years I was running thousands of random facebook pages that would gradually introduce subversive concepts congruent within the pages' themes. And that was a very basic, "dumb" way of doing it. People are putting their entire life online and companies are using that data to manipulate their behavior, part of the fight needs to be organize and use that data in a manner that undermines those pipelines in a way that frees people.
Eh. I mean, any revolution is just as much a war of propaganda as it is a physical war. Sure the media's going to tear into you the entire time (16 negative WP Bernie articles in a single night, anyone?), but an organized effort of brigading to expose and undermine the media's inherent bias needs to be a part of building dual power. That's one of the reasons I frown when people pass off any revolutionary acts of violence as just adventurism, you need those efforts to hold up as models for people that your brigading should be taking advantage of. Normalize, normalize, normalize. Heighten the contradictions and hold up alternatives. People need heroes and role models so they can shape their goals and see the possibilities.
The problem is propaganda is decentralized you no longer have only one or two narratives to choose from anymore. Weather your a radical Maoist , a weird k hive person, a lolbratarian, or a neo nazi someone somewhere is telling you exactly what you wanna hear.
Well yeah, but we don't choose shit. We generally follow the path of least resistance which is how we fall into pipelines. But we can also take advantage of same sort of techniques that social media companies are using to create these echo chambers. I've talked about this before, but for years I was running thousands of random facebook pages that would gradually introduce subversive concepts congruent within the pages' themes. And that was a very basic, "dumb" way of doing it. People are putting their entire life online and companies are using that data to manipulate their behavior, part of the fight needs to be organize and use that data in a manner that undermines those pipelines in a way that frees people.