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For activists I think you are biased by the fact that by definition you only perceive activists that are rather social. I, for example, consider myself as very
by wolfgke 10y ago
For activists I think you are biased by the fact that by definition you only perceive activists that are rather social. I, for example, consider myself as very acivist, but also very unsocial.
For politicians my perception is different: one might be tempted to call them privacy activists, but only for their own privacy (for obvious reasons), but not for passing laws protecting the privacy of the ordinary citizen.
- eropple 10y ago> I, for example, consider myself as very acivist, but also very unsocial. Can you square that circle for me and explain what you're doing to be an activist while eschewing the social sphere?
- wolfgke 10y ago> Can you square that circle for me and explain what you're doing to be an activist while eschewing the social sphere? I don't eschew the social sphere, but I strongly lack charisma/am socially rather clumsy and rather the kind of person who has difficulties forming friendships, thus I'm not very social.
- eropple 10y agoOK--so how are you, as you define it, an "activist"? Activism, to my mind, requires social interaction and engagement. I'm curious as to what I'm missing.
- reitanqild 10y agoLet me help here: There is a whole lot you can do without one-to-one social face-to-face interaction and engagement.
- type0 10y agoThere's plenty of "activists" trying to develop encrypted messaging systems, blogging about privacy rights etc, and they are not all that social.