How to Fail to Effect Change while convincing yourself you’re an activist: an example of Ironic Counterpose …

[ This post accomplishes the opposite of what it frames as desirable because it does not result in actual human relational organization and intelligent activity. ]

“Stating one’s favoritism (agreement) or antipathy (rejection) of something in ‘posts’ on social media… has an ironic effect. Neither advances the desired situation or the one thus engaged. This activity has little if any positive effect, and vast sequelae of negative effects (i.e. it supports what ‘we’ claim to oppose).

If you want to »affect a situation, what is required is »action in unison… in the real (not the electronic) world.

This modern ‘calling out’ behavior is as useless as it is deleterious… it not only doesn’t affect the problems we face, it entrenches them, and replaces, in our communal discussion, activism and relational behavior… the features of our potential that »could actually effect desirable change.

Posting things on social media has, primarily, »the effect of absorbing the emotions and motivations that might otherwise lead us into collective insight, intelligence and change-making.

Once absorbed, those energies are merely directed into the pool from which those features of our modernity that we abhor … derive their energy, momentum… and success.”

— an anonymous informant.