Internet-era counterculture was developing en force during Occupy Wall Street and with figures like Snowden, Manning, and Assange. It scared the shit out of the

Internet-era counterculture was developing en force during Occupy Wall Street and with figures like Snowden, Manning, and Assange. It scared the shit out of the powers-that-be and they worked over years to destroy the ability to form grassroots organizations. A lot of their weapons are focused on divide & conquer and making us fight one another over identity politics and our small differences. A few toxic ideologues (and ideologies) were essentially stuck on the equivalent of an enclosed train and shipped to the heart of the problem, and the establishment amplified their voices a thousandfold with the outlets they had available to them.