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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---TFIG! [1]
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Date: 2025-04-04
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"The catch is that in order to get attention, you have to be terrible. You have to lie or embrace evil. In the attention economy there is enormous demand for civic blasphemy. What’s hard is getting attention for messages about truth, or virtue, or love." [image or embed]
From the article: Why Cory Booker’s Speech Matters. www.thebulwark.com/…
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Also: Cory Booker’s filibuster didn’t “accomplish” anything. He didn’t stop a piece of legislation from being passed or forge a new political coalition. He didn’t launch a political movement or bring down Donald Trump. The world spins on today precisely as it did before he stood up to talk.
But by God, Cory Booker’s filibuster mattered. Or at least it mattered to me.
Let me explain.
It is painfully easy to get attention these days. Just do a Nazi salute, put it online, and watch what happens. Post selfies while wearing a Camp Auschwitz hoodie. Go into public and claim that immigrants in your community are eating your pets.
You’ll get loads of attention.
The catch is that in order to get attention, you have to be terrible. You have to lie or embrace evil. Civic blasphemy is how I think of it. In the attention economy there is enormous demand for civic blasphemy.
What’s hard is getting attention for messages about truth, or virtue, or love. Not a lot of demand for that stuff.
The problem is: That’s what we need. We need to rally against the nihilism and cruelty of this authoritarian moment. But how do you get attention for that message in a world that is already being ground down?
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