I understand not being ready to physically fight back, I really do! It makes sense. People care about their own lives and the lives of the people around them, we worry about who we will leave behind if we’re arrested or worse, etc. If all that a group of people are up for at this point is peaceful protest, okay. That’s where some people are at. But for the love of god, at least just… Protest. Make some signs and march. This “clever” human banner stuff is, surely, less effective than just walking down the street with a sign saying “it was murder”. It doesn’t achieve anything except to make you feel better. Just… Do that.
There probably is a place for this kind of performance art as “protest”, but it really feels like Americans think this is where it’s at, that the more clever their protest is the better it will work. Do we really think there’s a large group of undecided people out there who will be swayed by a protest if only it’s smart enough?!
It’s what the cultural hegemony has produced. You can see the same things happening everywhere that’s under the influence of US cultural hegemony, grew up primarily watching American made movies, approved by US military to make absolutely sure nothing too radical gets shown. We’re all a little bit American.
But this is weakening, people are now watching culture produced by other countries. Yeah a lot of those countries are still primarily US vassals, but they’re not as strict in what they’re allowed to show, so you get more ideas implanted into people’s heads.
I understand not being ready to physically fight back, I really do! It makes sense. People care about their own lives and the lives of the people around them, we worry about who we will leave behind if we’re arrested or worse, etc. If all that a group of people are up for at this point is peaceful protest, okay. That’s where some people are at. But for the love of god, at least just… Protest. Make some signs and march. This “clever” human banner stuff is, surely, less effective than just walking down the street with a sign saying “it was murder”. It doesn’t achieve anything except to make you feel better. Just… Do that.
There probably is a place for this kind of performance art as “protest”, but it really feels like Americans think this is where it’s at, that the more clever their protest is the better it will work. Do we really think there’s a large group of undecided people out there who will be swayed by a protest if only it’s smart enough?!
It’s what the cultural hegemony has produced. You can see the same things happening everywhere that’s under the influence of US cultural hegemony, grew up primarily watching American made movies, approved by US military to make absolutely sure nothing too radical gets shown. We’re all a little bit American.
But this is weakening, people are now watching culture produced by other countries. Yeah a lot of those countries are still primarily US vassals, but they’re not as strict in what they’re allowed to show, so you get more ideas implanted into people’s heads.