CHANCE LANG - AA Oct. 8th
Principle: Anger works best when you have the moral high ground.
I really appreciate the initial distinction between moral indignation and self-righteousness. Moral indignation takes the action in relation to the anger and makes it about solving the problem, or working toward solving the problem. Self-righteousness is pursuing an action that solely feels good for the person to do to express their anger, but it doesn’t solve anything.
Anger is a very aggressive emotion, which makes it a complicated emotional tool to use because it’s hard to control when it ramps up in intensity. However, I agree with the article because even with its dodgy nature it shouldn’t be feared. It can be productive when it’s controlled and fueling an organized action.
To give a not so great example on purpose to express my point, there’s a different between taking an axe to Donald Trumps star in LA, it’s another to pick things up and throw them at windows for the sake of pleasure. Both are acts of anger and both cost tax payer money to fix, but one is organized in giving a message, whereas the other doesn’t.
I would encourage the left, along with the article, to embrace more anger as fuel to put a spark under our asses to accomplish little tasks toward our pig picture goal because it really is a battle were fighting. Regardless of the nature, it’s a fight.
Tactic: Media-jacking
I see this as a format with a lot of possible success. What makes it so successful is that it has the element of surprise and it’s in a place it’s not supposed to be. Some examples, SNL is very political, however it is giving that political talk on a format where it is expected to be so, so SNL will never be revolutionary. You expect to hear people at rally’s talk about the issue they gathered for. That’s very important, I support organized rally’s and they’re needed, but they are expected to turn out the way that they do and that certainty can be a trap for progress.
An example of the opposite would be Andy Kaufman. We all thought he was a comedian, which we associated with comedy and laughter, one liners, ect.. but he wasn’t filling that box that we wanted. We ended up getting something radical that didn’t seem to fit the title we had given him.
That’s memorable. That’s memorable and controls the next couple days of thoughts and media because it attacked out expected routine. That gets attention and I want to participate in acts along those lines to provoke change,
Theory: The propaganda Model
Everything in this little article makes sense. America is a business. That’s the privilege this country has embedded into it. It’s a business. Everyones trying to make money. Some make a lot and most of us don’t. Those that do have the money, buy things and own things. Some of that happens to be the media, so knowing that, wouldn’t thy use the tools at their disposal to continue making money?
To make money the truth won’t work so you give the truth that you know supports you and exclude the truth that doesn’t benefit you. It’s not lying. We’re just being conned because we have been repeatedly told that the media is the truth, but the media is a business that tells us stories of what’s going on in the world. I don’t see to much truth in it.
The truth is all around us in the world. Open your eyes to that. It’s not the massive decisions and events that we need to fight back, it’s the little things that we almost don’t notice that are ingrained in us that is the real truth that we need to combat.
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