MIT's Media Lab has announced that it will award $250,000 to a group or individual for an act of civil disobedience that stands out above the rest. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/08/us/mit-civil-disobedience/index.html
Sounds dangerous... but, then, it is the will to disobey that has made us great on so many occasions.
"You don't change the world by doing what you're told," says Joi Ito, the director of MIT's Media Lab.
According to the department's website, "this idea came after a realization that there's a widespread frustration from people trying to figure out how can we effectively harness responsible, ethical disobedience aimed at challenging our norms, rules or laws to benefit society."
"You don't get a Nobel Prize for doing what you're told, you get it for questioning authority," says Ito. Truely, people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Galileo and even the American revolutionaries had to step outside of what was legal in order to affect the greater good.
All told, the award is going to be given based on one caveat: "The recipient must have taken a personal risk in order to affect positive change for greater society."
Sounds like it was tailor made for brave Pizzagate exposers to me.
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Dressage2 ago
I think it was trying to push Alinsky's work on the eight levels. One was to create chaos. I do like your idea though of a Pizzagate exposer!
shizzle_mcbobblehead ago
That eight levels bullshit wasn't alinsky.
Dressage2 ago
http://archive.is/ybdbC
shizzle_mcbobblehead ago
I have the book...
These are the real rules.
1.“Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”
2.“Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
3.“Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
4.“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
5.“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
6.“A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
7.“A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
8.“Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”
9.“The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
10."The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition."
11.“If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
12.“The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
13.“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
That other list is bullshit.