performative disobedience, particular in an age of mass social media is the opposite of a change agent, it's a spectacle and the other side of the coin of the s

performative disobedience, particular in an age of mass social media is the opposite of a change agent, it's a spectacle and the other side of the coin of the status quo, both of which usually feed on each other. Deleuze saw that very early: "The social machine’s limit is not attrition, but rather its misfirings; it can operate only by fits and starts, by grinding and breaking down, in spasms of minor explosions. The dysfunctions are an essential component of its very ability to function, which is not the least important aspect of the system of cruelty. The death of a social machine has never been heralded by a disharmony or a dysfunction; on the contrary, social machines make a habit of feeding on the controversies they give rise to, on the crises they provoke, on the anxieties they engender, and on the infernal operations they regenerate.[...] No one has ever died from contradictions. And the more it breaks down, the more it schizophrenizes, the better it works, the American way."