Having a sleepless night so time to read this long article 😊 and I want to THANK YOU. This helped me bring a lot of things in my head together - to see how history and recent events and actions relate to one another. I have the timeline, I see how the story has played out, how it’s been a “line upon line and precept upon precept” plan for years and years on the part of the right. They’ve had a clear focus, a goal and a plan of action. And they’ve planned and worked while, sorry, the left has been all over the place - lots of good, well meaning people but not necessarily agreeing on anything - from the problem to the remedy. So much talking things to death and not being able to agree on what to DO. We keep looking back and thinking the demonstrations that were so powerful during the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war protests are what we need to do now. But that was then and this is NOW and our woe has changed immensely since then. We need to accept what works NOW using the instruments of today. People aren’t out on the streets, they’re on line! I’m 68 and not good at this stuff - I’ve admittedly drug my feet because I don’t even like TV much less all the internet stuff. But the REALITY is that’s where the people ARE whether I like it or not. Especially the younger generations. I’ve got to figure out what I can realistically do with this. I have about 5 friends and a very small circle of influence. Our children love us but have no respect for our “woke-ness”. My 70 year old husband just retired, I have health problems and frankly we are tired. But one thing I can do is continue to support you and take advantage of all your research and work in helping educate me. I will be sharing this with my few friends and continue to restack your articles. I am asking the Universe to inspire me and give me creative ideas about what I CAN reasonably DO. Again, I appreciate all your research and the time it took to explain all of this in writing. Please don’t stop. We need you! 🙏
As always, I really appreciate your comment. And I really hear you. I detest social media as much as — and probably more than — your average leftie, so writing about its importance now is not something I do without profound ambivalence.
One thing I’ve said before, and now think I probably should have included in the article (maybe I’ll go back and add it), is that the greatest contribution of the civil rights and protest leaders of the ’60s and ’70s was not the marches or protests themselves, but their strategic genius. They understood the media and social conditions of their time: a handful of broadcast networks, a middle class with more disposable time, and a public for whom mass demonstrations were still relatively novel. In that context, marches and protests were not just morally powerful — they were also highly effective at capturing national attention.
So to me, the real lesson is not the tactic itself, but how they chose the tactic. We dishonor that legacy when we turn it into copy-and-paste nostalgia instead of doing what they did: asking what will work now, in our time, under our conditions. That — more than the marches or protests themselves — is their true legacy.
And honestly, I think you’ve already answered your own question about what you can reasonably do. Sharing and amplifying messages that move people toward human flourishing (instead of cruelty, extraction, and dehumanization) is exactly the work. That is not small. That is not secondary. That is the work.
Social media is simply the most efficient vehicle for it right now because that’s where the people are. The question isn’t whether it “counts” — it does. The only real questions are scale and coherence: how consistently we do it, and how clearly we focus the message so it can break through the noise.
What you’re already doing — reading closely, sharing with your circle, restacking, staying engaged, and being open to new ways of contributing — matters deeply. Please don’t underestimate that. Thank you for taking the time to write this, and thank you for the care and seriousness you bring to it. It means a lot.
Thank you Lukium. I always feel heard, seen and understood in our communications. And I appreciate your encouragement. I feel pretty useless sometimes. I’m still a sassy 18 year old in my head but my body laughs its butt off🤣🤣
I really like that piece you suggested you might add. During that past time period of civil upheaval people physically gathered (carefully) and had long talks, discussions, and I’m sure, arguments. They strategized and after their agreed upon actions, they regathered, discussed what went well, what didn’t, and planned what their next step would be. It was completely different then for instance the messages I’ve been given that there’s another upcoming No Kings demonstration and the assumption that of course I’ll be there. And that’s it. 🤷♀️
The other thing you mentioned is how different life was back then. That is so true. Many women were stay at home moms and grandparents could be just that, instead of surrogate parents. Today most couples both have to work especially if they have children. Lower income people often live in multigenerational homes and a lot of grandparents are helping raise their grandchildren. We certainly are. Life can feel like a whirlwind and it seems like everyone is tired - not just because of age😌
The internet is a huge piece of just making life work. during these times. Because of Amazon it is no longer possible to just go shopping and find things you need. Stores have adjusted to the competition by offering fewer items and choices. Probably the largest amount of time I spend online is shopping for needed items I can’t find anywhere else. Plus everything from our insurance and banking to our doctors, require filling out forms and making appointments or just getting help online. It is so time consuming and frustrating. So that adds to the challenge when trying to spend time with actual people.
So reading your article really hit me as far as the reality and importance of HOW we HAVE to start reaching people.
We live in a very nice small town but we didn’t grow up here and it’s not a particularly inclusive community plus we’re introverts😌 We did participate in the last NK demonstration where it was mostly gray hairs like us which is worrisome-we need the younger generations to engage and I think you are really right about how we can remedy that. So the older group was ok but we only knew about 3 people. 😌 And a lot of people driving slowly past were younger people who were videoing us with their phones and laughing at us. I have to admit I wondered at the time “what is wrong with this picture?” You have effectively answered that question.
My husband will never read this article but I’ll be able to use it to briefly explain a lot of it to him. He loves history so he’ll find a lot of that interesting. I know the information will help the lights come on for him too. And it’s an excellent resource for answering questions and triggering conversations between us.
And I hope liberals can wake up, find some backbone and exactly, verbally cut to the chase and not be afraid to be brutal about stating the truth. I love the “Trumpstein files” and the “Pedo Party” references. It says volumes in just a few words.
Again, thank you Lukium. Have a great day. Looking forward to reading more of your enlightening work 😊
"The civil rights and antiwar movements of the '60s and '70s were not wrong to march. They were strategic geniuses operating in a completely different world — a handful of broadcast networks that could be captured by a single powerful image, a stronger and wider middle class with more disposable time and money, life moving at a pace that allowed people to gather, strategize, regroup, and go again. Mass demonstrations were still relatively novel. They stopped traffic, literally and figuratively. We owe those leaders everything. And we dishonor their legacy when we turn it into copy-and-paste nostalgia. Because what made them great wasn't the marches — it was the genius to look at their moment and ask: what actually works right now, under these conditions, with these tools? That question is their true legacy. And it's the one we need to answer for ourselves — if we don't want to fail the heroes that came before us by letting the fascists burn all they built down while we cosplay as our idols."
I would just like to point out that Hillary Clinton straight-up said this was happening in the 90s. She said there was a “vast right-wing conspiracy" and she was ridiculed by the conservative-owned media, rendering her truth unavailable to most Americans.
God it’s so enraging to read a summary of everything they’ve done. I agree they’re not hypocrites, their agenda is clear. It’s like calling the republican Congress and all the law firms and universities that have gone along and so forth cowards. They’re cowards in a larger sense, but they’re mostly collaborators who are just fine with what’s happening. I think the response you suggest is correct, except the oligarchs can just buy up all the platforms, and then what? I think in addition to the social media war we need to conduct an economic war — strike and boycott wherever possible.
I think people overestimate the degree with which even Elon messes with the algorithms. I don’t know if you know this, but X has open-sourced their algorithm for feed recommendations. There are some parts that are closed, but much of it is visible to the public, especially since the last update to the open-source code last month. Point being that we can actually see to a large degree whether or not people are being censored. The big reason why X looks so much more rightwing now is because:
So many people on the left have abandoned it
Most people on the left who haven’t abandoned it tend to be much quieter and averse to confrontation.
So, we could, if enough of us made the effort, have a much larger footprint there (or anywhere for that matter). They can only suppress voices to a certain small degree without making it obvious, and that amount is not hard to overcome. If you go look there right now, there are some left voices that break through and get tons of views, just not as much as it could be.
On the economic boycott, this is going to be a bit harder. It’s much easier for people to boycott when they can afford to pay more for local/aligned goods. When people are struggling to make ends meet, telling them not to buy from Amazon/Walmart/etc. is going to be a really hard thing to accomplish en-masse. So that’s the rub there. What I would really like to see is people start building left-leaning alternatives to certain things that can actually compete. For example, the paypal-mafia is all rightwing. It would be great for some people on the left to get together and build something like paypal/Stripe, but that’s left leaning. Because then left leaning businesses could start using them as credit card processors rather than Paypal/Stripe, which in turn means that ~3% in transactions can start going towards a company that is left leaning, which could then use those funds to, among other things, fund left leaning candidates and other things like that. That’s the kind of “economic” fight that I think can REALLY REALLY have massive impact. There are all these small parts of the economy that run on tech that either come with monthly fees or per-transaction fees. If we could build that infrastructure and provide those services to left leaning businesses with the same kind of quality/reliability as the right does, it would be truly foundational in terms of impact. That was the reason why I began doing the work on the ATS app, though I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately, so that has slowed down a bit.
I think there’s something to be said about regulating social media. However, I believe that there is a dangerous trap in how we go about doing it. Any form of regulation that requires social media companies either to mass collect data on individuals or to moderate what individuals say on social media is a recipe for disaster: that is how we ended up with MAGA literally owning TikTok and immediately moving to censor speech they don’t like there.
Personally, I think the form of regulation that needs to exist concerning social media is very narrow: They must be required to cooperate and to maintain the tooling to cooperate, when faced with a court order in the identification of an individual when there is probable cause that a crime/civil violation has been committed. What this would look like is something like logging of metadata such as device-ids, IP addresses, email addresses, etc. The same regulation should then apply to ISPs and telephony providers. Combined, you are now able to have a complete toolset that, without handing social media the means for mass surveillance and/or censorship, you can reliably hold accountable individuals who commit crimes/civil violations. Then it’s a matter of passing laws that create a clear boundary for online crimes/civil violations, whether it’s the stuff that already exists like distributing CSAM, or things that don’t exist yet but probably should, like targeting vulnerable individuals to get them hooked in online gambling, or targeting teenagers’ self-esteem, different forms of online harassment, etc.
Your goal must be to target the individuals who cause problems, while holding platforms accountable if they fail to do their part in ensuring that the chain of actions required to make that happen works. Here’s the key reason why: the moment you make platforms responsible for the actions of its users, you have maximized the incentive for those users to do the very things you don’t want to see online, as now you have removed all accountability for the individual, and put the most expensive lawyers that money can buy between you and that accountability by trying to hold the platforms accountable instead.
And that’s not to mention, that again, the alternative is to hand over the keys of mass surveillance and censorship to social media companies, which nobody should want. Look at the advantages of a system like the one I’m suggesting: no single company gets full control of anyone’s data or power of censorship. If someone’s misbehaving, one company has metadata: IP addresses, email addresses, device-ids, timestamps, logs, etc. Then a separate company has identifying information: IP address + timestamp = ISP account = user identification | IMEI + timestamp + phone service = telephony account = user identification | etc.
So, what people should want is regulations that:
Create bright lines between acceptable and unacceptable online behavior that target the actor of the bad behavior.
Create the requirement for each company involved in online communication to do their part to identify a bad actor when a court order exists
Attach accountability for the bad behavior to the platform IF they fail to do their part in the identification of the bad actor when a court order exists.
This works because the incentive math works: bad behavior doesn’t get the platforms’ lawyers; the platforms are incentivized to act against bad behavior without being given power of mass surveillance/censorship; the actual individual that would do the bad behavior now knows that they will be identified and held accountable for it, the same way they would if they were to commit a crime/civil infraction offline.
Yes, TV isn't a very helpful model because communication only flows in one direction. We would need something similar which addresses the mutual exchange. I can't really think of anything similar right now.
For the right the objective is foundationally to deny like the Confederacy that all men are created equal Nazi Pedo Republicans inherently don't believe this core constitutional principle because they have a caste system that relegates people as to the haves and have nots related to $$$ which is what fuels their whole agenda Welcome to those with lots of $$$ and if you others want to tag along that's ok Policy not so much, having a government that serves the people not really, power to control those without $$$ is the main objective, those who are unequal and undeserving It started surreptitiously during the Reagan years and now has blossomed into the ugly weed in the garden of democracy that it is For more the Southern Gothic is exposed
Deep Dive Into Evils Of Christian Nationalism
True Detective is a 4 season HBO series starring Matt McConaughey and Woody Harrelson brilliantly portraying 2 cops who become a crime solving pair exposing the dark side of Louisiana culture Written by Vic Pizzolatto the series becomes an exploration of the Southern Gothic(https://bit.ly/4aNjMIC) which was evolved as a literary genre beginning in the 1850’s and deals with the dark side of Christianity as practiced in the South It sheds light on the toxicity of a cult that spans environmental, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of life
What makes this series so relevant to the current state of American politics is the correlation with the Republican push for Christian Nationalism as the reigning dogma and its parallels to the Southern Gothic As most know Christian Nationalism has nothing to do with governing and all to do with political populism and authoritarianism and comes from the dark or the toxic side of Christianity complete with the Satanic and Nazi symbology
As Hitler wrote in 1928, “We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.” The Southern Gothic(https://bit.ly/4ayIldj) has clear parallels with Nazism with themes of inequality, racial purity, and fear with scapegoating minorities The present day Christian Nationalist movement supported by the current Republican Nazi Pedo party depicts the diabolical evil of the Southern Gothic and fascism
There is also on the YouTube channel(you can sign in as a guest) a documentary that is 4h+ long that goes through the history of the Southern Gothic that is excellent called The Mythos of True Detective labeled True Detective S1 - Mythology, Folklore,& The Occult by Novum Can also access with computer https://bit.ly/3Oz6VSN
Although long it describes all the details of how Pizzolato puts together the series including the symbology explanations of the Southern Gothic
So one of focal points can be the obscenity of calling the Pedo Nazis Christian
Having a sleepless night so time to read this long article 😊 and I want to THANK YOU. This helped me bring a lot of things in my head together - to see how history and recent events and actions relate to one another. I have the timeline, I see how the story has played out, how it’s been a “line upon line and precept upon precept” plan for years and years on the part of the right. They’ve had a clear focus, a goal and a plan of action. And they’ve planned and worked while, sorry, the left has been all over the place - lots of good, well meaning people but not necessarily agreeing on anything - from the problem to the remedy. So much talking things to death and not being able to agree on what to DO. We keep looking back and thinking the demonstrations that were so powerful during the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war protests are what we need to do now. But that was then and this is NOW and our woe has changed immensely since then. We need to accept what works NOW using the instruments of today. People aren’t out on the streets, they’re on line! I’m 68 and not good at this stuff - I’ve admittedly drug my feet because I don’t even like TV much less all the internet stuff. But the REALITY is that’s where the people ARE whether I like it or not. Especially the younger generations. I’ve got to figure out what I can realistically do with this. I have about 5 friends and a very small circle of influence. Our children love us but have no respect for our “woke-ness”. My 70 year old husband just retired, I have health problems and frankly we are tired. But one thing I can do is continue to support you and take advantage of all your research and work in helping educate me. I will be sharing this with my few friends and continue to restack your articles. I am asking the Universe to inspire me and give me creative ideas about what I CAN reasonably DO. Again, I appreciate all your research and the time it took to explain all of this in writing. Please don’t stop. We need you! 🙏
As always, I really appreciate your comment. And I really hear you. I detest social media as much as — and probably more than — your average leftie, so writing about its importance now is not something I do without profound ambivalence.
One thing I’ve said before, and now think I probably should have included in the article (maybe I’ll go back and add it), is that the greatest contribution of the civil rights and protest leaders of the ’60s and ’70s was not the marches or protests themselves, but their strategic genius. They understood the media and social conditions of their time: a handful of broadcast networks, a middle class with more disposable time, and a public for whom mass demonstrations were still relatively novel. In that context, marches and protests were not just morally powerful — they were also highly effective at capturing national attention.
So to me, the real lesson is not the tactic itself, but how they chose the tactic. We dishonor that legacy when we turn it into copy-and-paste nostalgia instead of doing what they did: asking what will work now, in our time, under our conditions. That — more than the marches or protests themselves — is their true legacy.
And honestly, I think you’ve already answered your own question about what you can reasonably do. Sharing and amplifying messages that move people toward human flourishing (instead of cruelty, extraction, and dehumanization) is exactly the work. That is not small. That is not secondary. That is the work.
Social media is simply the most efficient vehicle for it right now because that’s where the people are. The question isn’t whether it “counts” — it does. The only real questions are scale and coherence: how consistently we do it, and how clearly we focus the message so it can break through the noise.
What you’re already doing — reading closely, sharing with your circle, restacking, staying engaged, and being open to new ways of contributing — matters deeply. Please don’t underestimate that. Thank you for taking the time to write this, and thank you for the care and seriousness you bring to it. It means a lot.
Thank you Lukium. I always feel heard, seen and understood in our communications. And I appreciate your encouragement. I feel pretty useless sometimes. I’m still a sassy 18 year old in my head but my body laughs its butt off🤣🤣
I really like that piece you suggested you might add. During that past time period of civil upheaval people physically gathered (carefully) and had long talks, discussions, and I’m sure, arguments. They strategized and after their agreed upon actions, they regathered, discussed what went well, what didn’t, and planned what their next step would be. It was completely different then for instance the messages I’ve been given that there’s another upcoming No Kings demonstration and the assumption that of course I’ll be there. And that’s it. 🤷♀️
The other thing you mentioned is how different life was back then. That is so true. Many women were stay at home moms and grandparents could be just that, instead of surrogate parents. Today most couples both have to work especially if they have children. Lower income people often live in multigenerational homes and a lot of grandparents are helping raise their grandchildren. We certainly are. Life can feel like a whirlwind and it seems like everyone is tired - not just because of age😌
The internet is a huge piece of just making life work. during these times. Because of Amazon it is no longer possible to just go shopping and find things you need. Stores have adjusted to the competition by offering fewer items and choices. Probably the largest amount of time I spend online is shopping for needed items I can’t find anywhere else. Plus everything from our insurance and banking to our doctors, require filling out forms and making appointments or just getting help online. It is so time consuming and frustrating. So that adds to the challenge when trying to spend time with actual people.
So reading your article really hit me as far as the reality and importance of HOW we HAVE to start reaching people.
We live in a very nice small town but we didn’t grow up here and it’s not a particularly inclusive community plus we’re introverts😌 We did participate in the last NK demonstration where it was mostly gray hairs like us which is worrisome-we need the younger generations to engage and I think you are really right about how we can remedy that. So the older group was ok but we only knew about 3 people. 😌 And a lot of people driving slowly past were younger people who were videoing us with their phones and laughing at us. I have to admit I wondered at the time “what is wrong with this picture?” You have effectively answered that question.
My husband will never read this article but I’ll be able to use it to briefly explain a lot of it to him. He loves history so he’ll find a lot of that interesting. I know the information will help the lights come on for him too. And it’s an excellent resource for answering questions and triggering conversations between us.
And I hope liberals can wake up, find some backbone and exactly, verbally cut to the chase and not be afraid to be brutal about stating the truth. I love the “Trumpstein files” and the “Pedo Party” references. It says volumes in just a few words.
Again, thank you Lukium. Have a great day. Looking forward to reading more of your enlightening work 😊
I added it:
"The civil rights and antiwar movements of the '60s and '70s were not wrong to march. They were strategic geniuses operating in a completely different world — a handful of broadcast networks that could be captured by a single powerful image, a stronger and wider middle class with more disposable time and money, life moving at a pace that allowed people to gather, strategize, regroup, and go again. Mass demonstrations were still relatively novel. They stopped traffic, literally and figuratively. We owe those leaders everything. And we dishonor their legacy when we turn it into copy-and-paste nostalgia. Because what made them great wasn't the marches — it was the genius to look at their moment and ask: what actually works right now, under these conditions, with these tools? That question is their true legacy. And it's the one we need to answer for ourselves — if we don't want to fail the heroes that came before us by letting the fascists burn all they built down while we cosplay as our idols."
I would just like to point out that Hillary Clinton straight-up said this was happening in the 90s. She said there was a “vast right-wing conspiracy" and she was ridiculed by the conservative-owned media, rendering her truth unavailable to most Americans.
Excellent!
God it’s so enraging to read a summary of everything they’ve done. I agree they’re not hypocrites, their agenda is clear. It’s like calling the republican Congress and all the law firms and universities that have gone along and so forth cowards. They’re cowards in a larger sense, but they’re mostly collaborators who are just fine with what’s happening. I think the response you suggest is correct, except the oligarchs can just buy up all the platforms, and then what? I think in addition to the social media war we need to conduct an economic war — strike and boycott wherever possible.
I think people overestimate the degree with which even Elon messes with the algorithms. I don’t know if you know this, but X has open-sourced their algorithm for feed recommendations. There are some parts that are closed, but much of it is visible to the public, especially since the last update to the open-source code last month. Point being that we can actually see to a large degree whether or not people are being censored. The big reason why X looks so much more rightwing now is because:
So many people on the left have abandoned it
Most people on the left who haven’t abandoned it tend to be much quieter and averse to confrontation.
So, we could, if enough of us made the effort, have a much larger footprint there (or anywhere for that matter). They can only suppress voices to a certain small degree without making it obvious, and that amount is not hard to overcome. If you go look there right now, there are some left voices that break through and get tons of views, just not as much as it could be.
On the economic boycott, this is going to be a bit harder. It’s much easier for people to boycott when they can afford to pay more for local/aligned goods. When people are struggling to make ends meet, telling them not to buy from Amazon/Walmart/etc. is going to be a really hard thing to accomplish en-masse. So that’s the rub there. What I would really like to see is people start building left-leaning alternatives to certain things that can actually compete. For example, the paypal-mafia is all rightwing. It would be great for some people on the left to get together and build something like paypal/Stripe, but that’s left leaning. Because then left leaning businesses could start using them as credit card processors rather than Paypal/Stripe, which in turn means that ~3% in transactions can start going towards a company that is left leaning, which could then use those funds to, among other things, fund left leaning candidates and other things like that. That’s the kind of “economic” fight that I think can REALLY REALLY have massive impact. There are all these small parts of the economy that run on tech that either come with monthly fees or per-transaction fees. If we could build that infrastructure and provide those services to left leaning businesses with the same kind of quality/reliability as the right does, it would be truly foundational in terms of impact. That was the reason why I began doing the work on the ATS app, though I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately, so that has slowed down a bit.
Please add this series, along with the "The Price of Hyper Tolerance" series, to the "Major Works" section of the homepage. 🙏
Love the graphics on this!
I'll say it again: social media need to be regulated like TV is. We have ample proof of how dangerous it is.
I think there’s something to be said about regulating social media. However, I believe that there is a dangerous trap in how we go about doing it. Any form of regulation that requires social media companies either to mass collect data on individuals or to moderate what individuals say on social media is a recipe for disaster: that is how we ended up with MAGA literally owning TikTok and immediately moving to censor speech they don’t like there.
Personally, I think the form of regulation that needs to exist concerning social media is very narrow: They must be required to cooperate and to maintain the tooling to cooperate, when faced with a court order in the identification of an individual when there is probable cause that a crime/civil violation has been committed. What this would look like is something like logging of metadata such as device-ids, IP addresses, email addresses, etc. The same regulation should then apply to ISPs and telephony providers. Combined, you are now able to have a complete toolset that, without handing social media the means for mass surveillance and/or censorship, you can reliably hold accountable individuals who commit crimes/civil violations. Then it’s a matter of passing laws that create a clear boundary for online crimes/civil violations, whether it’s the stuff that already exists like distributing CSAM, or things that don’t exist yet but probably should, like targeting vulnerable individuals to get them hooked in online gambling, or targeting teenagers’ self-esteem, different forms of online harassment, etc.
Your goal must be to target the individuals who cause problems, while holding platforms accountable if they fail to do their part in ensuring that the chain of actions required to make that happen works. Here’s the key reason why: the moment you make platforms responsible for the actions of its users, you have maximized the incentive for those users to do the very things you don’t want to see online, as now you have removed all accountability for the individual, and put the most expensive lawyers that money can buy between you and that accountability by trying to hold the platforms accountable instead.
And that’s not to mention, that again, the alternative is to hand over the keys of mass surveillance and censorship to social media companies, which nobody should want. Look at the advantages of a system like the one I’m suggesting: no single company gets full control of anyone’s data or power of censorship. If someone’s misbehaving, one company has metadata: IP addresses, email addresses, device-ids, timestamps, logs, etc. Then a separate company has identifying information: IP address + timestamp = ISP account = user identification | IMEI + timestamp + phone service = telephony account = user identification | etc.
So, what people should want is regulations that:
Create bright lines between acceptable and unacceptable online behavior that target the actor of the bad behavior.
Create the requirement for each company involved in online communication to do their part to identify a bad actor when a court order exists
Attach accountability for the bad behavior to the platform IF they fail to do their part in the identification of the bad actor when a court order exists.
This works because the incentive math works: bad behavior doesn’t get the platforms’ lawyers; the platforms are incentivized to act against bad behavior without being given power of mass surveillance/censorship; the actual individual that would do the bad behavior now knows that they will be identified and held accountable for it, the same way they would if they were to commit a crime/civil infraction offline.
Yes, TV isn't a very helpful model because communication only flows in one direction. We would need something similar which addresses the mutual exchange. I can't really think of anything similar right now.
Brilliant take here.
For the right the objective is foundationally to deny like the Confederacy that all men are created equal Nazi Pedo Republicans inherently don't believe this core constitutional principle because they have a caste system that relegates people as to the haves and have nots related to $$$ which is what fuels their whole agenda Welcome to those with lots of $$$ and if you others want to tag along that's ok Policy not so much, having a government that serves the people not really, power to control those without $$$ is the main objective, those who are unequal and undeserving It started surreptitiously during the Reagan years and now has blossomed into the ugly weed in the garden of democracy that it is For more the Southern Gothic is exposed
Deep Dive Into Evils Of Christian Nationalism
True Detective is a 4 season HBO series starring Matt McConaughey and Woody Harrelson brilliantly portraying 2 cops who become a crime solving pair exposing the dark side of Louisiana culture Written by Vic Pizzolatto the series becomes an exploration of the Southern Gothic(https://bit.ly/4aNjMIC) which was evolved as a literary genre beginning in the 1850’s and deals with the dark side of Christianity as practiced in the South It sheds light on the toxicity of a cult that spans environmental, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of life
What makes this series so relevant to the current state of American politics is the correlation with the Republican push for Christian Nationalism as the reigning dogma and its parallels to the Southern Gothic As most know Christian Nationalism has nothing to do with governing and all to do with political populism and authoritarianism and comes from the dark or the toxic side of Christianity complete with the Satanic and Nazi symbology
As Hitler wrote in 1928, “We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.” The Southern Gothic(https://bit.ly/4ayIldj) has clear parallels with Nazism with themes of inequality, racial purity, and fear with scapegoating minorities The present day Christian Nationalist movement supported by the current Republican Nazi Pedo party depicts the diabolical evil of the Southern Gothic and fascism
There is also on the YouTube channel(you can sign in as a guest) a documentary that is 4h+ long that goes through the history of the Southern Gothic that is excellent called The Mythos of True Detective labeled True Detective S1 - Mythology, Folklore,& The Occult by Novum Can also access with computer https://bit.ly/3Oz6VSN
Although long it describes all the details of how Pizzolato puts together the series including the symbology explanations of the Southern Gothic
So one of focal points can be the obscenity of calling the Pedo Nazis Christian