Idiots fighting to the bitter end is a large part of what molds society today, unless I have severely missed something. Please educate me if I have.
I'm not sure "it's" really about taking responsibility for all the consequences of your decisions seriously, as much as it is creating the space and mechanisms for your ideas to come to fruition. We cannot "see" the consequences of our actions, but we can create systems that stabilize the world. Perhaps this is what you're talking about?
I actually did not miss this, I simply did not have the space to say it, nor was it relevant to the point I was making.
It is strange to tell someone you have likely never met that they have missed something, based on very little information provided to you. This might be a sign of a cognitive impairment on your part, or perhaps a broken worldview. I don't have time to discuss either of these points, but it may be helpful for you to consider why you believe you can "read the minds" of people over the Internet.
You're forgetting that in many cases these protests turn violent as a direct result of police confrontation. In that regard these surveillance operations only increase the likelihood of escalating tensions between citizens and police.
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This reminds me of Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex: 2nd Gig, wherein a single actor causes an AI to rotate military forces within a refugee area, with the explicit intention of increasing anti-police sentiment among refugees.
The world is a stage and, without proper leadership, crowds will behave in ways they believe are allowed within the hard constraints of the social order. This is at the core of the BLM movement, and a pillar of the Occupy movement: police must not view themselves as separate from the policed. For cybernetic reasons as well as pathos ones. Otherwise, from the perspective of the social order, the distinction between the two is error.
I'm not so sure. From my perspective The Wire had a lot of Freshman psychology, philosophy, and civics mixed in with pauses where characters would stare at one another and let silence pass between them.
Mr. Robot is clearly a mature show to a subset of an audience; Rami Malek even won an Emmy, this year. Perhaps you are not hearing the music. In that case, I hope you do. : )
If they want to listen to you they will listen to you, although you may make it more expensive for them to do so.
Unless you're using physical couriers and airgapped networks with TEMPEST protection. I say this unironically; these are facts people tend to brush away.
A key part of any propaganda war is convincing people to abandon the cause. Now that Snowden has stood up, we have no option, as citizens who care about reformation, but to ultimately support him.
I'm not sure "it's" really about taking responsibility for all the consequences of your decisions seriously, as much as it is creating the space and mechanisms for your ideas to come to fruition. We cannot "see" the consequences of our actions, but we can create systems that stabilize the world. Perhaps this is what you're talking about?