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The revolution should not be televised
5 years ago
"The force for this change isn't coming from safety or ethics. Neither is it activism. If you see any group advocating influentially for change in a media they don't own or control, you can double down and split the 10s, the dealer is holding status and quo. No change is possible on someone else's dime, and if what looks like a supermodel approaches you with a microphone and a camera crew, you should run like she's Johnny Carcosa. On occasion what the activists think they want may happen coincidentally to align with what the system wants, and from that moment on they will be led to believe they are making a difference, which means they're making money for someone else."
(In other words: if the media is picking up your cause and running with it, you aren't going to change a thing...)
-- The Last Psychiatrist(In other words: if the media is picking up your cause and running with it, you aren't going to change a thing...)
While I agree that big media is never your friend, the point where the big media stops treating your movement as a bunch of crazy rioters and start treating you seriously is the moment your movement is big enough to affect change.
Not because they have 'seen the light'; it's simply because there's just more money to be made in your movement than in your opponents.