For a while, the smirking mainstream media celebrated social media as a tool for rebellions or even revolutions, but let's get real here. If that sh*t's effective, the people of Iraq, Libya and Ukraine, etc., wouldn't have had their countries wrecked by this empire. FaceBook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and the rest are no more than means for the masses to report themselves, minutely and in real time, to the authorities.
Faced with an ultra violent enemy with its kill lists, bombs, missiles, bullets, black sites and torture, we bark abstractions or demand nothing as our demand, such is our feebleness and nihilism. Giving up on reality, we claim a speck sized corner of the internet as our free speech zone. Impotent, we wave virtual fists in the direction of Wall Street or 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
To make more concrete statements, true rebels won't be so vaguely semaphoric. Whether lone wolves or in roving bands, they'll have to dodge the best technology ruthlessness can buy, however. No pixelated posers, they won't telegraph their moves in advance but simply act, and though their successes will likely be merely symbolic, at least they won't be surfing on fantasies.
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