Ground Zero Revolution 002

The Revolution 'will be televised' because most people in society are spectators conditioned into social conformity, non-violence and non-confrontation within the bubble of civilisation.  In mass societies of millions of conformists, the revolutionary initiative will come from a tiny few, perhaps even a handful of men who will learn how to cause metapolitical change, disruption and instability on a scale far beyond their meagre resources.

Online/electronic activism appeals because provides this leverage, it is technically simple and it suits introverted men - the personality profile of the majority of militants.  The danger is that the online world becomes a virtual world unto itself with its own interior goals and aims that are detached from the needs of ordinary people.  Virtual aims can include income and profits for online publishers and content creators, leading to the industrialisation of the political Right and alienation from the real world.

The online world should be a tool for running and organising activism in the real world.  Facebook and Twitter can advertise and encourage participation in meetings, demos, electoral campaigns, petitions and so on, they should not be meeting places in their own right.

Aims:

(i). Try to build our own online platforms and tools that are for real world organising and that interact with Big Social Platforms and Big Media but at the same time work can independently of them, if need be.

(ii). Build real-world communities, using community organising tactics and low-intensity civil resistance to build up a barricade mentality.

(iii). Withdraw from state services.

(iv). Campaign to discredit and where possible, de-legitimise and dismantle, state services.