>>513416308
some food for thought
You are not a revolutionary.
In the digital age, the regime scarcely needs to suppress revolt with force; bayonets and prisons grow irrelevant for those who mistake the screen for the battlefield. It is enough to provide a substitute, a simulacrum of resistance.
Online platforms have become the stage upon which men act out revolution, convinced that by posting, denouncing, and quarreling they are striking blows against power. In truth, as in Plato’s cave, they are but shadows of combatants, bound to an endless cycle of accusations and purity tests, weightless outside the glow of the screen.
One may argue that the digital sphere could serve as a tool for networking and organization. It could. Yet for most it does not. What presents itself as activism is instead a spectacle of impotence, a theater of revolt that leaves the real structures of power untouched.
