Apart from the network of migrating proxy servers, I suspect a lot of the cut&paste approach to consciousness raising has to do with the median age and experience of LJ users. It's aggravating in the same sense as those email petitions which used to circulate around the internet used to be, essentially little more than cheering from the stands at a sports rally, except even that required at least physically getting up and moving to the relevant field.
Most of the activism I've noticed online lacks that all-important step of relationship with the people who are directly affected by that activism. Instead of asking what is needed and what form fulfilling that need should take, people take on "a project" as if they were still in high school and a teacher coached them on how to fulfil their community work grade requirement. Ultimately, it's disconnected. So much talk about how the internet brings these protests to our awareness, but at the end of the youtube stream, the protesters remain in an isolationist country in which brutal force is being levied against them. The US has far too much at stake in access to Afghanistan and Pakistan to support too much destabilization.
I suppose the next step of civil disobedience will involve general strikes and sabotage.
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Date: 2009-06-22 06:56 pm (UTC)Most of the activism I've noticed online lacks that all-important step of relationship with the people who are directly affected by that activism. Instead of asking what is needed and what form fulfilling that need should take, people take on "a project" as if they were still in high school and a teacher coached them on how to fulfil their community work grade requirement. Ultimately, it's disconnected. So much talk about how the internet brings these protests to our awareness, but at the end of the youtube stream, the protesters remain in an isolationist country in which brutal force is being levied against them. The US has far too much at stake in access to Afghanistan and Pakistan to support too much destabilization.
I suppose the next step of civil disobedience will involve general strikes and sabotage.