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Precisely. Depends on what you're trying to achieve. If you want to actually make lasting, positive changes to the world? Absolutely worthless. If you want to
by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Precisely. Depends on what you're trying to achieve.
If you want to actually make lasting, positive changes to the world? Absolutely worthless.
If you want to self-promote for the sake of e-fame, real fame, money, power etc, smash hit.
Guess which one most Twitter activists are actually interested in.
- whimsicalism 5y ago> If you want to actually make lasting, positive changes to the world? Absolutely worthless. I think this is an incredibly premature statement to make if this is really a form of activism that's only been around for ~5-10 years or so. Typical HN though, we love to play the role of enlightened politicos looking down at the unstrategic masses.
- djrogers 5y ago> I think this is an incredibly premature statement to make if this is really a form of activism that's only been around for ~5-10 years or so. But it hasn't - TFA even includes an example from centuries ago. > Typical HN though, we love to play the role of enlightened politicos looking down at the unstrategic masses. Typical HN though, we love to assume we're the first people to really understand a topic.
- whimsicalism 5y agoYes, TFA which explicitly singles out "contemporary meme activism" as the problem. > TFA even includes an example from centuries ago. Oh, you mean the abolitionist example? Yeah, too bad those guys never achieved any lasting, positive gain. You can't have it both ways.